Focal & Naim

Naim Audio Ltd

About this app

The Focal & Naim App is the ultimate remote control for your home hi-fi system, enabling you to have millions of songs at your fingertips. Enjoy instant playback through your connected Naim devices – from legacy products to the very latest releases - no matter what room they’re in.

This app also now supports the new Focal Bathys Bluetooth Headphones.

Simple and intuitive set up:
• Set up new devices seamlessly with the Naim set up process.

Orchestrate your music:
• Control all functions and settings of your devices remotely.

Fill your house with sound:
• Use the Naim multiroom system to stream your favourite music throughout the house or have a different playlist in each room.

Stream entire libraries of music:
• Playback to your Naim devices through a great number of sources such as Qobuz, TIDAL, Spotify, UPnP and iRadio.

Play your way:
• The straightforward user interface makes it incredibly easy to play, create playlists and adjust play queues while providing extended artist information.

Customise your experience:
• Adjust room compensation and display illumination settings for the Mu-so range
• HDMI-ARC autoswitching

This app works with all of the following Naim network-connected digital music players connected to a Wi-Fi network:

• Mu-so
• Mu-so Qb
• Uniti Core
• Uniti Atom
• Uniti Atom Headphone Edition
• Uniti Nova
• Uniti Star
• ND 555
• ND 5 XS2
• NDX 2
• UnitiQute 2
• UnitiQute
• UnitiLite
• NaimUniti 2
• NaimUniti
• SuperUniti
• ND5 XS
• NDX
• NDS
• NAC-N 172 XS
• NAC-N 272

Ratings and reviews

The app isn't the most horrible thing in the world, despite it being very glitchy and unstable. My problem is that I mainly use Tidal with my Mu-so Qb, and on my LG v40, many songs just refuse to play. Most commonly this is singles, or songs that there's only one of on an "album". But sometimes albums with 10+ songs won't play a single song from the album. Incredibly frustrating and makes me regret purchasing my mu-so qb.

Last update included a Rovi Database fix. This fix caused the Uniti Cores to stop playing and reset. This required a firmware update to clear. Unit is no longer resetting but now that I can finally use my core again it appears as if the app does not work the same with older versions of Android. This app is constant black eye for a high end audio company. I just lost the use of my equipment for a month because of an app update. And this is not the first time this has happened.

App connectivity has gotten better and works best with V2 Mu-so than my V1 QB....that being said, even with a mediocre app, I love the speaker system and gladly will put up with issues..the sound is just that great. Still, I have hope they will improve the app soon to have a more reliable link to device. For now, best is to get a Spotify subscription and use speaker through Spotify app. I am hoping Tidal will also integrate better soon.

What's new

- System Automation volume buttons could fail to appear on Now Playing when connected to certain devices
- Spotify album names could occasionally be incorrect
- App could sometimes close during Bathys firmware update