CEDIA 2009 Coverage

September 14, 2009

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Naim showed off its two new media server solutions, The HDX (top) is what is now becoming standard hard disk server that rips discs to a hard drive, gathers meta data, and provides access through its small touch panel screen or an external monitor using a Windows application. Data is stored on two 400GB disk drives — one primary and one back up (RAID1). Presumably they will offer a 1TB option. It supports WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC and WMA formats. The literature only states that it has analog outputs and I didn’t see any digital outputs. What were they thinking?

The UNITI All-in-One (bottom) is, surprising, an all-in-one unit. Here is how they describe it:

So imagine everything audio in one place: integrated amplifier, CD player, DAB/FM tuner, internet radio, iPod dock, digital-to-analogue converter, music file player and network stream player. And now combine all that with legendary Naim musical quality, engineering integrity, design sophistication and interface know-how. Congratulations! You’ve just come up with the NaimUniti.

It has no internal hard drive but can find and play audio files from a network attached storage unit (NAS)

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