NAD 513 CD-changer

The London-based company NAD provided a CD player manufactured at a new assembly plant for testing. The company has remained true to its traditions here as well. According to its original design solution, sound, equipment and appearance, this device does not differ at all from a series of products manufactured by the same company in factories located around the world. The carousel drive contains a total of three CDs. The laser reader here is also located directly in the carousel-type loading compartment. Thus, a disc that is in playback mode cannot be ejected. At the same time, when the loading bay is extended, you can inadvertently touch the rotating disk. The advantage of the design of this model is, of course, the almost noiseless disc change, which, oddly enough, is rather slow, despite the small size of the carousel. On the front panel of the NAD 513 player there are only 15 buttons that control all modes of the player. These include: repeating individual fragments of the recorded material, the entire disc or all discs, random selection of fragments, playing the beginning of fragments of the recording, programming the playback order of 32 fragments, as well as preparing a program for copying on both sides of a tape cassette with any length. As for the sound quality, here the NAD 513 was at the top end of the scale, according to which the devices were evaluated during testing. You can have some comments about the modest functional equipment, but the sound quality is really impeccable.