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The Naim You’ll Never See — But Always Hear
Feb
When you’re planning a new build or renovation, the audio system rarely makes it onto the mood board. Speakers get chosen for how they look. Amplifiers end up as an afterthought. And somewhere along the way, the idea of genuinely great sound gets quietly compromised.
The Naim CI-Uniti 102 exists to fix that — without asking you to sacrifice a single shelf to do it.
What is it?
The CI-Uniti 102 is Naim’s custom install streaming amplifier. It lives in a rack — behind a panel, in a cupboard, in the comms room — and from there it powers your music throughout your home. You never see it. You just hear it.
And what you hear is unmistakably Naim. The same streaming platform found across the Uniti range, the same obsessive attention to musical performance, packed into a sleek 1U rack-mount unit. Two ESS DACs, a SHARC DSP processor, and 150 watts of clean Class D power per channel into 8 ohms.
Built for how modern homes actually work
The CI-Uniti 102 connects to every streaming service you’d want — Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify Connect, Apple AirPlay 2, Chromecast — and integrates natively with Crestron, Control4, Savant, RTI, and Elan home automation systems. If your home is being built around a smart home platform, the 102 slots in without compromise.
It’s also designed to grow. Pair it with Naim’s CI-NAP 108 eight-channel power amplifier and you can extend audio into additional rooms, building out a whole-home system around a single, cohesive Naim network.
For rooms with a television, HDMI eARC input means your TV audio runs through the same high-quality signal path as your music. No separate soundbar. No separate amplifier. One tidy solution.
Built to Expand
Pair with Naim’s CI-NAP 108 to extend audio into multiple rooms as part of a whole-home system.
Every Streaming Service
Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify Connect, AirPlay 2, Chromecast and more.
Smart Home Ready
Native integration with Crestron, Control4, Savant, RTI and Elan.
The Focal connection
Because Naim and Focal are now part of the same family, the CI-Uniti 102 has something genuinely useful for renovation projects: dedicated speaker profiles for Focal integrated speakers, with DSP tuning, room correction, and time alignment tailored specifically to the speakers rather than being a generic EQ guess.
If you’re speccing Focal integrated speaker systems into your build, this amplifier is the natural partner.
One system. Whole home.
The CI-Uniti 102 is designed to be the heart of a larger Naim CI installation. Pair it with the CI-NAP 108 — Naim’s eight-channel power amplifier — and you can extend high-quality audio into multiple rooms from a single, unified system. Everything runs through the same Naim ecosystem, controlled through the same app, with the same musical performance throughout.
Whether it’s background music in the kitchen, a serious listening setup in the lounge, or audio running through an outdoor entertaining area, the CI series gives you the flexibility to build a system that fits your home — not the other way around. And because it’s all Naim, it scales without compromise.
Planning a build or renovation?
Come into the Premium Sound showroom in St Kilda. We’d be happy to walk you through how a system like this could work in your space.
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