Having no major Naim equipment ( appart from some powerlines a SL xlr and my wife’s Muso2Wood) i still have love for the company and hope lots of lovely gear continues to be made.
Regarding Starlite , I think its a super name and a marketing masterpiece in naming a product .
It hits the spot in so many ways in 2026.
As a product it gives clear tiering of the range .I forsee an improved Nova on the way to give headroom over Starlite .
The range does look beautiful though .
D.
Well, at least on removing the CD drive, Naim fitted new casework and not a blanking plate …….
ATB, J
Thanks for that 
I have been wishing for a SuperNova for ages.
I don’t need 150 watts per channel but, loving the one box elegant form factor, I would welcome an upgraded pre-amp & streamer. Eight years or so seems a reasonable amount of time to implement these improvements to me. It could fill a gap left by Supernait 3’s demise, would certainly cost more & would, presumably, therefore be more profitable for Naim.
Due to a total lack of comment every time I have mentioned this in several posts over the years, I assume that I am in a class of one?
Really? Star ‘Lite” makes little sense unless there’s a Star, which we know no longer exists
Good and witty remarks. This new Star lite (a Star without CD drive) doesn’t fill an existing gap within the uniti series. Strange Naim doesn’t fill a real important gap within their range, a new integrated amplifier as successor for the Supernait 3.
Other brands take that place, and so Naim loses potential customers (possible lifelong devotees).
An exemple is Hegel offering a whole range of all-in-ones (H series) and now the launched the H200 (all-in-one) together with the A200 (integrated amplifier, identical to the H200 but without the whole digital part). Others brands are also walking the same path.
Come on Naim, bring that us that new integrated amp.
Looking forward to the release of the souped-up
Starlite Xpress in a few months time.
I’ll get me coat! 
Yes, I stand by my earlier comment, notwithstanding other more positive responses on this thread. Maybe there was a stockpile of Star components going to waste, that would fit inside the Nova chassis/casework (that is, if they’re the same as the Nova’s)?
Jeezus get me out of here please .
Not to mention the PowerLine Lite, which nobody seems to take issue with.
I think there’s a fair bit of overthinking happening here. It’s simple; Naim had to stop making the Star as the CD drive it used ceased manufacture and no suitable alternative could be found, hence it was decided to make a new version without the drive/ripping function. Outwardly it follows the form of the Nova (i.e. like the Star but no disc loading slot).
What makes some of the negative comments on this thread rather curious is that essentially it is the Uniti Star many had asked for on here from the very beginning, and more in keeping with the other units in the range.
Thanks Richard. Perhaps a little overthinking, but not an unreasonable assumption, it would seem.
I’ve no issue with the name as such but it is a tad misleading and confusing, it implies there’s a full-fat version a la Powerline etc, also regardless of the name I’m confused as to what it’s USP is particularly in relation to the Nova? If people wanted this all along why not just buy a Nova?
The Star used to have an option to add a dab,fm module.
I toyed with it when I bought mine but decided not to bother
Because it fits between the Atom and the Nova in the range, both in performance and of course price (In the UK it’s approx £1k more than an Atom, and £1k less than a Nova).
I wonder if the positive here is- new Uniti product underlining the range as is, still has a long life.
I wonder if there’s a place for an HE version? The Atom HE has been very succesful I think and I sense that headphone based systems are generally popular. A Uniti Lite HE could have a high spec headphone section above that of the Atom HE.
Bruce
Do you not think that there’s a risk that, rather than boost sales, it’ll simply take sales that would otherwise have gone to the Atom or Nova, Richard (and more likely the Nova given the form factor and output)? It still makes no sense to me, unless (as suggested) it’s a way of utilising stockpiled components within an existing chassis & case.
There was always that risk with the Star. This likely doesn’t change that except it ensures the Star can continue being made available and at a slightly lower price thanks to doing without a feature that it seems most didn’t either want or didn’t really use. So you could equally argue that this move might well increase sales of the Star. Glass half full, or half empty?
Yep, fair point (albeit that the Star would appeal to buyers wanting a CDP, so a slightly different demographic).