DVD-player NAD T585
NAD Electronics often wins the competition with quality/price ratio. We'll see, will not be there except for this versatile player. Just over a year since its inception, he managed to gather a lot of positive reviews in the trade press. Good chance it in our test - that universal T585 has an affordable price and with almost equal competitors in equipment.
The player's case differs from its predecessors new proprietary finish "dark graphite" and direct access to the menu from the front panel. Device is not bulky, but punctuated with electronics and mechanics pretty tight. Transport operates without delay and almost silently. On the back you'll find not quite complete, but sufficient for most cases a set of audio and video output: HDMI, progressive scan component, S-Video and composite video, coaxial and optical (TOSLink), multi-channel (5.1) analog. There is also input to the IR receiver, 12-volt trigger and RS-232 port. But it seems that something is missing. Yes, a separate "pure" stereo. It guards, such as jacks, as a rule, always exist in this class of player, but here they have saved...
But it's better at this than the other. Often, some universal audio stream DSD, readable with SA-CD, transferred for further processing in PCM-signal. In terms of costs to build a sound path is a step justified - it saves more substantial than the rejection of a pair of RCA rear panel. But in terms of sound quality is a compromise move. And it just did not go NAD engineers. In T585 when playing CD, DVD Audio and SA-CD used separate paths, all outputs - audiophile-quality digital-to-analog converters 192 kHz/24-bit with separate power supply, and bass manager even provided steepness setting filters.
Video path remarkable scaler Faroudja DCDi, able to convert the picture quality of standard DVD to the level of HD (720p or 1080i), and double discrete video converter DDVC, different treatment of high accuracy low bits.
Sounds NAD T585 with such optimism and pressure that initially is not even words for criticism. Playing captivating temperament, very expressive and deep bass (perhaps here universal NAD not even competitors), meticulously-designed structure and excellent shock attack. Images of the scene as if surrounded by halos subtle, but very physical. This is the ideology of NAD: musicality for excessive analytic sacrificed. There are some errors in the sound, but they do not even want to attach importance. For example, the upper range of slightly touched. Some microdynamic simplicity is felt in the middle lane. Scale sound space is slightly intimate character even on recordings full symphony orchestra. In other words, some part of the music information - the subtle nuances, the reverb feedback, "air" - This universal still ignores (when playing DVD Audio and SA-CD is less noticeable). But most importantly, the essence of music, he brings to the listener without hypocrisy.
