Naim Uniti Star/Nova and Turntable

 @caphill - The Olympia 3s are beautiful speakers my friend.  Reminds me of those beautiful Italian wooden boats you see in the movies.  I plan on using mine with FLAC files, Apple Music, Tidal and some vinyl.

Do all of the Uniti’s use class A/B amplifiers or only the Nova? 

Thanks,

Mike

@audiotroy - Thank you very much for the reply. Regarding speakers, I bought a pair of the Focal Aria 906 a couple weeks ago along with Wireworld Oasis 8 10ft speaker cables at a local dealer. He also introduced me to the Uniti Atom.

My current situation is that I have a pretty decent home theater system (Anthem, Golden Ear, SVS & Oppo) and have neglected 2 channel. Now that I’m listening to more 2 channel via FLAC and Apple Music/Tidal, my on wall Golden Ear speakers and Anthem AVR are not conducive to my needs. Because my Golden Ear SuperSat 50 speakers sounded terrible with 2 channel music, I bought a pair of Focal Aria 906 bookshelves a couple weeks ago but have to use Zone 2 outputs on the Anthem MRX-720 to play music and there’s no bass management. When I was at my local dealer to buy the Focal speakers, I heard the Uniti Atom with Focals and it sounded amazing. With my current setup, I would need to add an integrated amp and run 2 channel through it. If I bought the one of Uniti boxes, I could have a separate 2 channel setup that could be moved anywhere and/or add the mu-so QB cubes around the house.

I chose the Star because I read how much better it sounds than the Atom and has the ability to add a sub and turntable but I do not need the cd ripper since I have everything on FLAC. The nova would be ideal but do not want to pay $7K.

One other thing, are you guys able to get the Naim 5 pin DIN to RCA cable (pic below)? I believe it’s used to attach a turntable to free the rca for a sub or other input. I plan on adding a Clearaudio Concept or MoFi Ultadeck turntable and upgrade my speakers to Dynaudio Super 40s or Concept 20s.

Also looking at the Linn Selekt DSM with integrated amp - https://www.linn.co.uk/sources/network-music-players/selekt#selekt-dsm-with-integrated-power-amp

@tomic601 - thanks.

Thanks @audiotroy , @caphill , & @tomic601 for the great responses.

I see that none of the Uniti products support SACD, would it be possible to play SACDs through the Nova using my oppo 205?

@tomic601 - thanks...I have already made a spreadsheet of Naim Audio Uniti Series that details inputs/outputs specs. Nova is the only device that has 2 RCA inputs unless you use the RCA to 5 pin DIN input and there are 2 on the Nova.

@audiotroy - I have all my disks ripped to FLAC on an external HDD that I currently play through the oppo 205. Honestly, I’m not real happy with the sound quality of the oppo 205.

@audiotroy -  I’m currently researching the Micromega M100/150, thanks for the suggestion.

@audiotroy - very intrigued by the Micromega but would like to hear in person.  Looks as though Focal dealers have access to Micromega so I’ll ask my local dealer if they have any to listen to.  I do not like that updates have to be done via USB port in the back of the machine.

My biggest concern is speaker pairings because I do not plan on keeping my focals more than a year or two depending on when I decide to update my home theater.  I continuously read that certain speakers only pair best with certain sources which concerns me moving forward since I only bought the focals to use for a short time.