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Naim HDX specs

We are currently working on upgrading our specs, but here are some short details.

Two variants: HDX or HDX-SSD

HDX - 500GB Hard Drive

HDX-SSD - 16GB Single Level Cell (SLC) Enterprise Drive

Bit-perfect CD ripping to either 500GB internal storage drive (HDX only) or external network attached storage (NAS) drive (both HDX and HDX-SSD)

Naim Extended Music Database - supports extended metadata to track-level resolution for intuitive browsing & selection

Naim Network Scanning - will discover all playable music & metadata available on networked computers (PC & Mac)

Naim UPnP Server - will serve audio streams to any UPnP rendering playback device, such as the NaimUniti or UnitiQute

Ethernet network connectivity for reliability

Front-panel USB port for replay of USB memory stick-stored audio

Multiple intuitive control interfaces: Front panel touch screen / TV / Web / Desktop Client and iPhone / iPod Touch app

Naim Desktop Client - for browsing music files, player setup and maintenance with a PC

WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, Windows Media-formatted content files and ALAC files played from any USB-connected storage device

Native 24 bit/192kHz playback and internal architecture with support for hi-resolution audio formats. Plays WAV up to 24bit/192kHz, MP3 both vbr and fbr, FLAC up to 24bit/192kHz, AAC (m4a only), AIFF, ALAC, OGG Vorbis and Windows Media-formatted content files.

CD replay with display of cover art, album and track data

Performance upgradeable with additional of external XPS or 555 PS power supply and DAC digital to analogue converter

StreamNet-enabled for NaimNet audiophile multi-room replay of up to six streams over a home network

Separate toroidal transformer and linear power supply for audio circuits

Naim-designed PCI audio and drivers with ultra-low jitter clocks

S/PDIF Digital output on BNC or TosLink

Seven pole analogue output filtering

Composite, S-Video or VGA display output for screen or touchscreen

Electrical isolation of data lines and clocks

Ultra low noise triple-regulated power supplies

Naim reference non-magnetic, low-resonance low microphony case

Quiet in operation

British design and build

If you are interested in using our specs commercially, check out our Network Attached Storage specs database licensing page.


Description: The world's first, performance-upgradeable, audiophile hard disk player HDX is first and foremost a music player. Like a conventional music storage device it reads audio data from a CD, copying and storing it to hard disk. That is where the convention ends though.

When a CD is inserted in the HDX disc drawer it is read repeatedly until a bit-perfect CD-quality copy of the audio is obtained. This is then stored onto the HDX's... read more

Created by MG15 , Last update by MG2 , Jun 10, 2010

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