New Unitiqute 2 user

Posted by: Granthar on 15 May 2013

Just returning to Naim and digital many years after connecting my first CD player to my old Naim 12S preamp and 160.

I am looking to stream from an HP Micro server, possibly using MediaMonkey across wireless. Have a couple of questions

If I decided to use a wired connection do I switch the ground to floating or is that only for audio connections?

Most of my music is Flac format. Are there any audible benefits of using another format?

I currently have a pair of Dali Lektor 1's, would the Q Connect 20's be a good match for the Unitiqute 2?

Sorry if these questions have already been answered by others

Posted on: 15 May 2013 by Bart

Greetings! I have a Qute and really love it.

I am 99% sure that the ground switch and related circuitry does not relate to the wired ethernet connection.

There has been tons written here and debated about whether all lossless formats sound the same, and on which equipment. My strong recommendation is to pick flac as your stored music format of choice, because of its widespread use and ease of embedding metadata (tags). If you're really curious, if your server software supports it, you could have the server transcode the flac to wav as its sending it out, to see if you hear a difference.

All the best,

Bart