Naim Uniti Atom Review (Streamer & Amp)

[Timegroove]

I can not find this review in the review index, maybe it should be there?

 

[Whiskey the Cat]

I can not find this review in the review index, maybe it should be there?

It is there, I just looked. Do a search using Naim, check titles only, and member Amirim. Or look under DACs, Streamers, around Feb 2022 I believe. Still not sure how it got such a poor rating, as I own one and find it very good, although a bit expensive. I sometimes wonder if he got a bad example.

 

[DSJR]

If Naim can do it, so can old running mates Linn - at a price...

Linn Majik DSM - New for 2025 - Signals Hi-Fi

Linn Majik DSM is Linn's entry point into high quality networked audio. It's fully equipped with MM & MC phono stage and HDMI ARC A/V integration.

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Look at these prices -

Linn offers and an open day or two @ signals - Signals Hi-Fi

Dear old Linn have the capacity to make offers are just a tiny bit complicated! Headline at the moment is that, until the end of August 2025, you can save 20% on Organik DAC upgrades for Selekt or Akurate DSM components, but there is far more to talk about. In addition to this, there are …...

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[AudioSceptic]

It is there, I just looked. Do a search using Naim, check titles only, and member Amirim. Or look under DACs, Streamers, around Feb 2022 I believe. Still not sure how it got such a poor rating, as I own one and find it very good, although a bit expensive. I sometimes wonder if he got a bad example.

I doubt it. This is another example of gear that performs at roughly CD standard, which is OK in the real world (a lot of research went into the CD standard). It's overpriced for the performance, but that's what happens with most "high end" stuff.

 

[AudioSceptic]

If Naim can do it, so can old running mates Linn - at a price...

Linn Majik DSM - New for 2025 - Signals Hi-Fi

Linn Majik DSM is Linn's entry point into high quality networked audio. It's fully equipped with MM & MC phono stage and HDMI ARC A/V integration.

signals.uk.com

Look at these prices -

Linn offers and an open day or two @ signals - Signals Hi-Fi

Dear old Linn have the capacity to make offers are just a tiny bit complicated! Headline at the moment is that, until the end of August 2025, you can save 20% on Organik DAC upgrades for Selekt or Akurate DSM components, but there is far more to talk about. In addition to this, there are …...

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Oh, yes. Just for laughs, look at the current prices for the LP12 <https://www.linn.co.uk/uk/turntables>. As far as I can tell, the equivalent to my old thing is around £11k!

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

If Naim can do it, so can old running mates Linn - at a price...

Linn Majik DSM - New for 2025 - Signals Hi-Fi

Linn Majik DSM is Linn's entry point into high quality networked audio. It's fully equipped with MM & MC phono stage and HDMI ARC A/V integration.

signals.uk.com

Look at these prices -

Linn offers and an open day or two @ signals - Signals Hi-Fi

Dear old Linn have the capacity to make offers are just a tiny bit complicated! Headline at the moment is that, until the end of August 2025, you can save 20% on Organik DAC upgrades for Selekt or Akurate DSM components, but there is far more to talk about. In addition to this, there are …...

signals.uk.com

I won't have a word said against my good old LP12! It is at least as good as the family Dansette multilayer which was our hifi in 1959.

 

[DSJR]

I won't have a word said against my good old LP12! It is at least as good as the family Dansette multilayer which was our hifi in 1959.

You and @AudioSceptic will have to forgive me here, as I was deeply steeped in Linn-dom from the mid 70s until around 1988 when on a trip to the factory, they cut an acetate of two favourite Blue Nile tracks, played same on the then top LP12/Ittok/Troika and then proved to me how terrible the vinyl (45 and LP) versions were in comparison (master tape was that which cut the 12" 45rpm disc). It took me YEARS to accept the bloody 'fruitbox' again, but bit by bit, starting with the sonically huge upgrade to the Cirkus bearing and sub-chassis when using their heavier tonearms, they hauled it round incrementally and by a few years ago, it was genuinely very good, bearing in mind it has to make the best of the flawed vinyl source material. Third parties making solid top plates, cast plinths and other add-ons including new sub chassis' showed how to turn the LP12 into the vinyl version of a CD player, but that's missing the point (Notts Analogue turntables were always excellent if not as good looking, nor did they have the cachet of an LP12). Their new mega-grand plinth is a joke really when others have done it so much more cheaply (better looking too), but some remaining disciples will buy it I'm certain...

For years I hated the bloody thing and then a few years back, I set-up and serviced a few old ones, did the best I could on a wayward new one (one that wouldn't 'bounce' evenly - I'd lost my once good touch sadly after thirty years away from it, as it needed a dedicated combination of spring and grommet 'softness' to balance, such is the lop-sided 'TD150' spring layout) and the usual Linn-bod there had to finish it off.

I have a good 'afro' plinth here and in recent times, thought I'd try to scrounge some parts cheaply to cobble a working deck together bit by bit. Sadly not to be and finances have dried up for the forseeable (and no, I'm NOT flogging my stash of stuff to finance it). I'd be more inclined to want a good early Roksan Xerxes now, knowing what I know - and now having a couple of Rega arms to fit to a suitable one.....

Digression again - 'simply sorry' fellas (those my age into it back then will know )

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Smashing response D

 

[Timegroove]

It is there, I just looked. Do a search using Naim, check titles only, and member Amirim. Or look under DACs, Streamers, around Feb 2022 I believe. Still not sure how it got such a poor rating, as I own one and find it very good, although a bit expensive. I sometimes wonder if he got a bad example.

Not if you search in Audio Electronics in the Review Index.

 

[AudioSceptic]

If Naim can do it, so can old running mates Linn - at a price...

Linn Majik DSM - New for 2025 - Signals Hi-Fi

Linn Majik DSM is Linn's entry point into high quality networked audio. It's fully equipped with MM & MC phono stage and HDMI ARC A/V integration.

signals.uk.com

Look at these prices -

Linn offers and an open day or two @ signals - Signals Hi-Fi

Dear old Linn have the capacity to make offers are just a tiny bit complicated! Headline at the moment is that, until the end of August 2025, you can save 20% on Organik DAC upgrades for Selekt or Akurate DSM components, but there is far more to talk about. In addition to this, there are …...

signals.uk.com

Unlike the Naim, I think the Linn will perform well objectively. Look at Amir's test of the Akurate DSM, for example, and the Majik DSM-5 has 100 W Class D. Still overpriced, of course, but that is par for course.

 

[Engine]

Unlike the Naim, I think the Linn will perform well objectively. Look at Amir's test of the Akurate DSM, for example, and the Majik DSM-5 has 100 W Class D. Still overpriced, of course, but that is par for course.

It's not overpriced, it's just that you don't have the money for it

 

[AudioSceptic]

It's not overpriced, it's just that you don't have the money for it

(Chortle). Actually I do, but I couldn't justify it. ;-)