Uniti Nova

The Unitis punch well above their weight in my view and unlike most classic pre-amps they don’t have superfluous record loops which I doubt many users use or need these days. Ducks……

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Not saying the Nova digitisation is likely to be anywhere in the same league, the Urika digitising at an early stage, but seems a shame with the digital Urika II that you’re stuck with Linn’s ecosystem to decode. Or are you?

It says output format is Linn Exakt Link so I guess so

I sometimes think it would be better if people weren’t aware of it, then they would just judge the thing for what it sounds like instead of fretting over the concept of losing the purity of an unadulterated analogue chain.

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Yeah maybe. Still, it’s something I for one wanted to keep when I chose

Another happy Nova customer here and although no vinyl I love the ability to stream and play CD’s I am using the Nova DAC via an Audiolab 6000CDT straight digital Chord digital connection. I went with the LS50 Meta’s and complimented them with a REL TX\5, the latest addition of the Powerline just completes the picture. I previously owned NAC202 and NAP 200 NSats and NSub, CD5 etc, I think the consolidation of the Nova and CD player is perfect. Also have Qobuz and Tidal, Tidal works without a hitch always and Qobuz sometimes cuts out but I think that is my download speed issue. Only have 20Mb. I love the variety Tidal suggests and has opened up whole new artists and music. :-0)

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I for one don’t fret. I stopped purchasing vinyl in 1984. And now, with the exception of 4k Blu-rays, physical media is dead to me.

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A little update.

So the Spendors are warming up!! Good grief they are good.

I understand about the conversion of analogue to digital. I do understand you lose something (however minor the trimming of the corners and formalising of the lucidity might be) via that. I love vinyl. I may need another avenue there.

All I can say is that the Nova with the A7s is an extraordinary system. The technology in both of the very highest quality. I am absolutely loving them.

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Enjoy your Nova, it’s a great piece of kit!

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Wow you virtually have my system, including cables, there Marty! I don’t have a sub (yet) though. I also was running both Tidal and Qobuz for a while. I’ve now dropped Tidal as I don’t suffer from your dropout issues with Qobuz. Happy listening!

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And keep in mind that all newer recordings are done in digital. The Vinyl is then created after conversion to analog.

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While you are right generally, “all” is taking it too far.

As @Suedkiez says. This album for example:

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Yes it goes digital to analog to vinyl , on vinyl analog to digital on the Nova and then digital to analog again.

It’s like being on The Magic Roundabout

Funny thing is , when you listen to vinyl being replayed on the Nova you can’t tell it’s been altered in this way

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I run a P10 into a Nova and find it immensely enjoyable.

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Absolutely, I was so impressed with how the LP12 sounded into the Nova DESPITE the digitisation it just rekindled the vinyl bug, at least for a few years. (repeating myself it seems…)

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The ADC on the Unitis is really good, run my ClearAudio TT into mine sounds fab. I tried a different ADC recently as was experimenting getting my TT output into Roon to use its multiroom, it worked but definitely not all ADC’s are made equal.

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I had my twenty year old CDX2 recently serviced and converted to a transport only, in other words making sure the Nova got the signal direct from the Naim player.

Whilst the ADC is excellent on the Nova, fed direct the Nova seems to go up a gear , either way I am very, very happy with the Nova

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It’s probably clear why, but the 2 things missing from the Uniti Atom/Nova are:

1 - Digital out to use them as a streaming source to an external DAC

2 - Ability to add an external PSU

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