Words from Naim Audio:

If the HDX is the pinnacle of our digital knowledge, the UnitiServe represents the distilled essence of our experience. It delivers the fundamentals of the HDX’s high-end music server technology in a compact, half-width enclosure. Like the HDX it offers bit-perfect ripping, the ability to serve music to a wide range of compatible devices, control via the n-Serve iOS app and, of course, all the performance for which our network-connected products are widely famed.

If you already own a large digitally stored music collection or plan to rip more than the 2,400-CD capacity of a regular UnitiServe, consider the UnitiServe-SSD version. It offers all the functionality of the UnitiServe but substitutes its standard 2TB internal hard disk for a 16GB solid-state drive, sufficient to ensure smooth and fast browsing of your content. Your music collection can then reside on an external network-attached- storage device, or NAS, allowing access to as much storage as your budget or needs could ever reasonably require.

Where do you store your CD collection?

On shelves? In a cupboard? Sometimes scattered, on the floor? With UnitiServe-SSD, every CD you own can be stored, catalogued and ready to play at the press of a key, the click of a mouse or the touch of an iPhone.

UnitiServe-SSD is a compact, slot-loading, CD ripping, hard disk music player and server based on the technology of the multi-award-winning Naim HDX. It takes the fundamentals of the HDX; a solid state drive, Naim bit-perfect ripping, Ethernet connection, UPnP server, StreamNet technology and local digital outputs, and combines them with a set of features perfectly suited to music in the home of today, and tomorrow.

A variant of the UnitiServe - the UnitiServe-SSD has no internal hard-disk storage and is intended for use in network systems where ripped data is stored exclusively on NAS drives.

All things to all music lovers:

An audio system can grow around UnitiServe-SSD. It can replay ripped CDs into a digital input-equipped amplifier, such as the SUPERNAIT or a digital to analogue converter like Naim's DAC, for example, with all the engaging Naim musical insight, musical performance and clarity you would expect. In addition the UnitiServe-SSD can operate as a UPnP server to stream audio to any UPnP playback device over a home network, such as NaimUniti or UnitiQute, to create a simple and fantastic sounding multi-room system. And for those wanting to put sound quality at the centre of whole-home control, UnitiServe-SSD is StreamNet-enabled and can also function as the heart of a sophisticated IP-based NaimNet* multi-room system. However you choose to use UnitiServe-SSD, it can be controlled by an iPhone or iPod touch device running the dedicated Naim n-Serve app, a touch screen, or a computer anywhere on the home network either via a web browser or the Naim Desktop Client application.

CD liberation:

UnitiServe-SSD is not just limited to CD format audio or its internal storage. It can also play back audio from a USB memory stick and will scan the network for music stored on NAS drives or network shares in WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, OGG Vorbis, AAC, WMA and MP3 formats at up to 24 bit / 192kHz resolution.

Welcome to the future:

UnitiServe-SSD brings very high performance hard disk player and music server technology into the realms of affordable high end audio. It is one of the most versatile and liberating products ever to have worn the Naim logo.

Product Specification:

Audio Inputs:
USB:	4 x rear panel
Ethernet :	1 x rear panel (RJ45)
UPnP:	Transcoding, proxying UPnP Sever D compatible

Audio Outputs:
Digital: (S/PDIF)	S/PDIF, 75Ω BNC and TOSLINK
Ethernet:	1 x rear panel (RJ45)

Connectivity:
Remote Control:	Infra-Red RC5 (handset optional)
Remote Input:	1 x rear panel 3.5mm jack (RC5 modulated/unmodulated)
Remote Output:	No
RS232:	1 x 9 way D type
TV Outputs:	1 x S-Video, 1 x composite, 1 x 15 way D VGA
Updates:	1 x RS-232 (rear panel)
Others:	iPhone / iTouch, VGA, 1 x PS2 keyboard and 1 x PS2 mouse

Formats:
CD Formats:	Red Book
Audio Formats:	WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, OGG Vorbis, AAC, Windows Media-formatted content files, MP3
Internet Radio Provider :	vTuner
Disc Compatability:	CD, CD-R, CD-RW

User Control:
Front Panel	Touch-sensitive eject and shutdown mode function
TV Monitor:	4:3 and 16:9 customisable TV interface USB touch screen compatible
Web Interface:	PC and Mac internet browser compatible                                                                           Adobe Flash user interface
AMX Creston:	Installer-customisable reference apps available
Handheld:	User interface app for iPhone and iPod Touch devices

Streaming and Ripping:
USB:	Scan and play from FAT and NTFS formatted memory sticks
Network Shares:	Scan and play from music stored on a network share
Network Storage:	Rip to external network storage for expanded music storage
CD Metadata:	AllMusic.com online, FreeDB online and local database
StreamNet:	6 user streams to NaimNet and NetStreams systems

Power:
Supply Voltage:	100V-230V; 50 or 60Hz

Physical:
Dimensions: (H x W x D)	87 x 207 x 314 mm
Weight:	4.2 kg
Supplied with:	External power supply

 

For Naim information please visit:

https://www.naimaudio.com/product/unitiserve

For review

http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/naim-introduces-unitiserve-compact-hard-disk-digital-audio-playerservers/

 

 

The retail price of this unit was £2,650.00.