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The music you love, wherever you want it

Where do you store your CD 
collection? On shelves? In a cupboard? 

Sometimes scattered, on the floor? With UnitiServe, 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 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 
massive internal hard disk drive, Naim bit-perfect ripping, Ethernet connection, UPnP

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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. 

All things to all music lovers

An audio system can grow around UnitiServe. 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 can operate as a UPnP

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 server to stream audio to any UPnP

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 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 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, it can be controlled by an iPhone or iPod touch device running 
a dedicated Naim app, a touch screen, or a computer anywhere on the home network either via a web 
browser or the Naim Desktop Client application. 

Technology serving music

Our unrivalled expertise in digital audio; expertise that had its beginnings in the Naim CDS, the first genuine 
high-end audio CD player, is at the heart of the UnitiServe. It extracts the data from CDs using unique, 
in-house developed techniques and algorithms to ensure that the ripped data represents a faultless replica of 
the CD. The data is then stored on a 1TB internal hard disk with space for up to 1200 CDs, or on an external 
Network Attached Storage (NAS) with potential for space that can easily out pace your music collection. 
UnitiServe also stores the metadata (artwork, track titles, artists, performers, composers) for all ripped CDs, 
regardless of their storage location, automatically downloaded from allmusic.com. The Naim Extended 
Music Database format means that music can be found easily by searching for any stored parameter. You’ll 
never lose track of a CD again.

But there’s far more to UnitiServe performance than bit-perfect CD ripping and storage. Its external power 
supply is designed to minimise mains injected noise and it incorporates a decoupled hard-disk assembly that 
both minimises noise and any possibility of disturbance from external vibration. Digital signal management 
within the UnitiServe is based on techniques developed for the Naim HDX and the digital outputs on the 
CD5 XS and CDX2 CD players. UnitiServe is a true Naim product that deploys highly innovative and advanced 
technology simply to serve the music.

CD liberation 

UnitiServe 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 24bit/192kHz resolution. A variant of the UnitiServe 
- the UnitiServe-SSD is also available. 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.

Welcome to the future

UnitiServe 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.

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To find out more about NaimNet visit www.naimnet.com

Being able to upgrade performance is a fundamental tenet of the Naim philosophy.  

UnitiServe can be added as a digital audio source to an existing hi-fi system by connecting its high-quality BNC digital output to an external digital  

to analogue converter. Naim’s DAC is the perfect partner for UnitiServe when using it as a stand-alone hard disk player.

Upgrade Path

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