Naim's five-star music streamers get AirPlay 2 and Siri update

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Siri voice control and multi-room playback come to the ND 555, NDX 2 and the 2019 Award-winning ND5 XS 2

Naim adds AirPlay 2 to all its networked streamers
(Image credit: Naim)

Today is a good day for Naim network streamer owners. The British hi-fi brand has announced it is updating its network players with Apple AirPlay 2 via a free over-the-air update.

Courtesy of the new functionality, owners of the five-star ND 555, five-star NDX 2 and Award-winning ND5 XS 2 will be able to stream music directly from their Apple device – whether that be an iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac or Apple TV – to the streamer with just a couple of button presses.

Naim adds AirPlay 2 to all its networked streamers

(Image credit: Naim)

Of course, Apple AirPlay 2 only expands what is already a wide gamut of wireless potential, with the network players already Roon Ready and supporting Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, Chromecast and music services like Deezer and Qobuz. They can also handle hi-res music; WAV, FLAC and DSD files at up to 32-bit/384kHz are supported.

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Dan Sung
Dan Sung

Dan is a staff writer at What Hi-Fi? and his job is with product reviews as well as news, feature and advice articles too. He works across both the hi-fi and AV parts of the site and magazine and has a particular interest in home cinema. Dan joined What Hi-Fi? in 2019 and has worked in tech journalism for over a decade, writing for Tech Digest, Pocket-lint, MSN Tech and Wareable as well as freelancing for T3, Metro and the Independent. Dan has a keen interest in playing and watching football. He has also written about it for the Observer and FourFourTwo and ghost authored John Toshack's autobiography, Toshack's Way.