Ci-uniti 102 vs uniti atom

[Blacknote]

I think you might find this useful:

CI Uniti 102 positioning

HI all, Naim staff alert, so take it as is. CI102 I personally have a soft spot for, and a lot of competitor products come in my direction. The hard stats on the important bits as there is a lot of rogue info going around on various forums. We are watching : Streaming core: iMX8 quad core 1.8GHz processor with Wifi6 2x2 and high quality Gigabit Ethernet. This is our latest platform . SHARC 21563 DSP. Processing chain uses a mix of 64bit and 40bit proc…

Unluckily I’ve never been able to listen to it in person so I can’t really comment.
In the link I’ve shared, you’ll find this particular sentence which might be the most interesting part:

@Stevesky

Sound wise - lets put it like this, its shooting well above the standard for a CI product. It will happily give a black eye and broken nose to most Hifi products based on similar tech and price range. Good as an Atom? Depends on your priorities. The Atom being a classic class AB design does have that lovely relaxing analogue vibe which is so hard to recreate with class D. The CI102 is perfectly listenable but it lacks the relaxing finesse of an Atom… however, power wise it’s on another level so great for rock / electronic dance music. Just my opinion.