Yep this has sparked my interest as well. Been thinking of updating my SuperUniti for a while, to something that will allow me to use Tidal Connect. The CI Uniti 102 looks like it could be the perfect unit, if it can power my Kudos X2s. 
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Well thatās exactly how I control my Atom, using only the Apple TV remote which turns on/off the Apple TV, LG TV and Atom.
The Apple remote also controls the volume of the Atom.
I rarely have need to use the TV remote and never use the Naim Atom one.
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If you read the marketing blurb it seems itās intended to be used and optimised to an extent (using speaker profiles and DSP) for Focalās CI range of speakers primarily.
As itās a CI product there may be installation requirements, as in fitted by a reseller as one example.
You could buy one and do what you want of course, Iāve asked my dealer for one to demo and compare against the Atom on my TV.
They appear to have a new controller app for this range also. It has no display or controls (like an ND5 XS2) so relies on app control and setup.
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Indeed. Is the 8 channel box a AV surround sound thing?
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Iād interpret that more to be for bi/tri amping and for driving passive subs from
one amp. They reference their 1000 Series Utopia CI speakers to that end.
Iāve never got around to having my Nova setup like that, being old school 
, but I guess I could try a HDMI lead and see how that works. Can you still use the volume knob with the automated volume control.
Itās also not clear if the new box also does local music streaming through Ethernet?
I think Iām out of my depth here. I donāt really know what CI is. And there are some sort of weird brackets hanging from the front of the units in some pictures.
Yep Iāve already asked that question, thing is if you look at the rear of these products they donāt look like Naim stuff.
Itāll be using the same NP800 network/streaming subsystem as in other Uniti products so should mimic the feature set.
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I couldnāt even see speaker connections?
Theyāre designed to be compliant to different regulatory environments, in particular retail and marine.
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Interesting that Naim are using optical SPDIF, which it has been claimed they donāt use, because they donāt think it is very good.
CI = Custom Installation
Itās designed specifically for an integrated system and covers specific environments like a bespoke multiroom
solution, retail or marine (yachts etc).
Naim had a similar system in the past called NaimNET.
Part of that range from Circa. 2007, the NNP02 for reference.
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Interesting that it also is a Dante receiver. Common in the pro world for sending audio over Ethernet, one way to get audio into Dante is a virtual sound card driver. Would be a lovely upgrade to the normal streaming products probably for a very few users.
I was wondering the same thing, Mike.
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Itās mainly for shopping centres motels boats etc to pump music on a commercial level. However there has to be an opportunity for a Naim AV amp at some stage.
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The brackets (I assume an accessory in the box) are for rack-mounting in custom-install racks. Many years ago Arcam did the MZ8 and MZ12 class AB amps for the same purpose and they had the brackets as accessories for this purpose. I think the Rotel CI do as well.
Ref the CI-NAP 108, outside a custom install environment it could be used as a multichannel power amp for AV duties or as an up-to 8 channel power amplifier for passive or active speaker amplification.
Use one of these with a suitable digital crossover/dsp unit before the NAP 108 and you could build a 4-way speaker pair and adjust all crossover slopes/points/individual gain settings etc using the dsp unit and then this would provide a single box of power - quite neat really.
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