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Remains the elephant in the room: the price of just under 10,000 Euros. That’s hefty.
It is hard to find a good comparison. The NAD M33 is obvious: also a streaming amplifier, with a good streaming platform from BlueSound and also built around Purify’s amplifier technology. On price alone, the gap is a big one though, it saves more than 4,000 Euros. However, your reviewer doubts that consumers are going to choose between these two amplifiers. This is where the thought of the target group presses itself to the foreground: this group does not shop on price, but on brand experience and service. Naim is more likely to compete with a brand like McIntosh in this particular market segment.
Conclusion
Naim delivers a great music device with the Uniti Nova Power Edition. The amplifiers impresses with the grip it has and the resulting control in the music reproduction. If you seek to aptly apply the term 'power house' on a device, it is this one.
The Naim DNA is present: rhythmic and toe tapping inducing as expected with this brand. It just proves that you can take an amplification topology and engineer it to represent the sound looked for. The streaming platform Naim uses is solid, with a very usable app. The design of the amplifier still looks as clean and modern as on the day it was introduced, featuring that beautiful volume wheel on top.
Its pricing places the device firmly in a niche. A niche that exists next to the consumer groups that are drawn to the other offerings of Naim.