Has The SuperUniti Been Upgraded With Supernait 2 Amp?

sounds strange......

The marketing is easier to upgrade. The write-up is in sync with what two Naim dealerships told me last year.

R&D man explains to marketing man. Inside the box we have integrated a streamer & pre-amp with its power-amp, the amp has some parts from the Supernait ............  After a period of gestation we have words of wonderment to sell you an all in one streamer/amp. 

Its one of those marketing things........ 

Cars  "our EMS is taken from the market leading top of the range GTZ  ...."    

TV's  "our flicker free MHz screen is taken from the SuperMega model ......."

Shame but thats marketing,  pinch of salt required methinks. 

There is an unwritten rule in high-end audio that states audiophile performance levels can only be achieved through separates. By combining technologies pioneered by reference products such as the NDX and SUPERNAIT 2 and adding a few innovations of its own, the SuperUniti demonstrates just how far our research has taken us with all-in-one sound quality. It’s proof that sometimes, rules are made to be broken.


I do not think there is any R&D / marketing misunderstandings here: either there has been a genuine upgrade or this is just cheating. Either embarrassing or quite distasteful, from my point of view.

As the SuperUniti came before the Supernait 2, it must be that the latter is derived from the former, unless the latter's tech was designed before the former was released, in which case the former really could be derived from the latter.

I am now getting out my ladder and preparing to jump from the roof.

The original SuperNait used a completely different output stage, so it is fair (if not temporally intuitive) to say that the SuperUniti and the SuperNait 2 share similat amplifier technology within the output stage....

Indeed, but not the one in the first sentence.

OK then. So, as NAC A5 forms part of the output stage, we could also write that anything using A5 shares similar technology 

I bet there's more current Uniti and Nait products out there using something other than NACA5 (at least in North America) than there are using the house brand cable....

Of course, the point I was making was that the output stages are quite similar between the SuperUniti and the SuperNait 2.

Point taken. But it remains, as you say 'not temporally intuitive'...

Interesting play on words, but I didn't buy my Superuniti thinking it was an NDX and a Supernait 2 in 1 box, just that it had certain design elements from them.

Comparing the price and sizes of the individual components would confirm that this couldn't be so I would think.

Do not sounds right from a marketing perspective since the superuniti predates the supernait 2.

In reality many R&D programs may run at different phase and it is technically possible that the amp section of the superuniti design was derive from a program that was eventually adopted for use in the Supernait 2. :-)

I am thinking it is an error on the web page writeup and cross linkage of references.