NAD reviews

NAD 116/216 THX Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD 116/216 THX

Today authority of the NAD brand among lovers of high-quality sound with modest (by their measure) income is high enough in the world. Particularly NAD Company succeeds in low frequency amplifiers, which are the rightful pride of the Company. The preamplifier NAD 116 and the power amplifier NAD 216 THX...
NAD 2200 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD 2200

Despite its conventional appearance, the NAD 2200 is radically different from other stereo power amplifiers in its design and performance, some aspects of which border on the spectacular. It carries a relatively moderate power rating of 100 watts per channel into 8-ohm loads from 20 to 20,000 Hz with...
NAD 302 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD 302

Whatever novel developments may be hidden inside the sheet metalwork of NAD's 302 amplifier, anyone hoping for a radical departure in external styling is going to be disappointed. Even with the best will in the world, it's hard to describe the characteristic NAD style as much other than militarily workmanlike,...
NAD 304 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD 304

In its appearance the amplifier resembles the modest and unpretentious design that is hard to compete with the luxury models of the large brands, but the surface impressions are often deceptive and this fact takes place in this case. When you have connected the amplifier to a network and carried out...
NAD 310 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD 310

Model 310 is the easiest and cheapest model in the range of amplifiers of this company, but it was the model that caused a real furore in the English audio press a few years ago, which experts considered it "the best buy" in this price category. NAD audio equipment is addressed to those amateurs who...
NAD 312 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD 312

This amplifier shows up among the black team owing to the fashionable color "wet asphalt" and the green power button. The amplifier had not disappointed our expectations before the switching: there are two switches on the backboard. The one features the lock for selecting the nominal resistance of the...
NAD 314 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD 314

All Nad equipment and primarily amplifiers have quite modest but easily recognizable design. The company's products are perceived by British audio press in such a way that give reasons to believe that something typically British is concentrated in this image and, perhaps, in sound too. Like in the tested...
NAD 402 Tuner review
Tuner NAD 402

For a relatively strictly looking front panel NAD 402 hides electronics with parameters that exceed the average level. Perhaps that is why, this tuner has won several tests conducted by famous foreign magazines. The tuner can receive radio stations on FM and MW. In each of these two ranges can be written...
NAD 414 Tuner review
Tuner NAD 414

The famous English firm has produced an excellent device, massive and voluminous, which gives an impression of solidity and severity in the design. Radio station tuning is made not by buttons, but a big rotating handle. This somehow reminds old, good radios, but unlike them the handle does not rotate...
NAD 510 CD-player review
CD-player NAD 510

CD player NAD 510 in all parameters emphasizes that music is in the first place. Visibility and ease of control, traditionally typical for the company's devices, is logically combined together not only in the appearance but also in the schematics. For example, we can refer to the latter a single-beam...
NAD 512 CD-player review
CD-player NAD 512

The branded belonging of the 512 is recognized due to the compact panel design with a minimal set of controls. All the missing elements are compensated with the remote control. However, again in accordance with the concept of the NAD Company there are no functions related to the editing of the recording....
NAD 513 CD-changer review
CD-changer NAD 513

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...
NAD 514 CD-player review
CD-player NAD 514

NAD is famous for its unusual product design and unusual design philosophy. However, the company is now less likely to adhere to the previously adopted principle, which was to provide high quality at the lowest price (especially this applies to price). However, the principle of a certain moderation of...
NAD 515 CD-changer review
CD-changer NAD 515

Decently but tasteful, - this is how you can characterize the model of NAD. Here are a strict, ascetic design, well thought-out ergonomics of minimally possible number of controls, monitor character of sound. The same transport mechanism as in the model of Marantz is used in it. Indicators and the way...
NAD 517 CD-player review
CD-player NAD 517

The English company NAD remains true to its principles in the design development of equipment. A typical example is the NAD 517 CD player, which is made in the best ascetic traditions of technical design. NAD 517 is a carousel type and is able to fit 5 discs in its carousel. Unlike the previous model...
NAD 5425 CD-player review
CD-player NAD 5425

CD player is a cleverly engineered design built around a MASH converter. MASH was the first low bit technique ever used in domestic CD players, and it owes its genesis to Technics who developed the hardware in conjunction with Japan's telecommunications industry. The 5425's circuit topology is NAD's...
NAD 705 Stereo Receiver review
Stereo Receiver NAD 705

The NAD Model 705, which falls in the middle of the company's receiver lineup, follows the NAD tradition of striving for high performance and functional design at a reasonable price. For example, all NAD amplifiers, whether separate components or part of a receiver, feature what the company calls Power...
NAD 712 Stereo Receiver review
Stereo Receiver NAD 712

As the heroes of American action films say, we have good and bad news for you. Good news: popular English company "NAD" came to new rational policy of mass production, deciding to completely combine the most successful models in its new components. The consumer consciously buys not just a device but...
NAD 7220PE Stereo Receiver review
Stereo Receiver NAD 7220PE

NAD has always eschewed the bells, lights, and whistles approach to audio product design. Judging from its front panel, the 7220PE might well be characterized as the "plain Jane" of stereo receivers. Yet, when you look behind that rather drab front and begin to explore its innovative circuit design,...
NAD 7600 Stereo Receiver review
Stereo Receiver NAD 7600

As the only receiver in NAD's Monitor Series, the 7600 may be considered the paterfamilias of the entire line. It is strictly an audio model (though one input is designated for the audio from a video source), and its concentration on performance and value is what we have come to expect from NAD. The...
NAD 802 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers NAD 802

The NAD 802 is a very popular 2-way speaker system among Hi-Fi connoisseurs. Traditional appearance, no frills and design frills; bass-reflex port on the rear panel; dimensions 200x400x264 mm. The mid-bass driver has a polypropylene cone with a diameter of 17.6 cm, and the diameter of the soft dome tweeter...
NAD 804 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers NAD 804

NAD 804 is a two-way phase-inverting speaker system. The designers managed to laconically ensure that the decent appearance of the speakers can successfully fit into more than just business-style interiors. The dimensions of the speaker are 720x200x260 mm. Half of the body volume, which is relatively...
NAD AV 316 AV amplifier review
AV amplifier NAD AV 316

Model AV-316 from NAD's strict and laconic. Made in accordance with the traditions of the company NAD - the highest quality at a given price, it has a minimal set of functions and settings. In appearance, this AV-amplifier - a typical representative of the equipment NAD: the same strict rectangular housing...
NAD AV-716 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD AV-716

It's hard to believe at this late date, but the AV-716 is NAD's first A/V receiver. It is a distinctive entry into the field, however: NAD has distilled down what is absolutely necessary in a basic A/V receiver and has delivered that essence in a high-performance product. The home theater nucleus...
NAD C 725BEE Stereo Receiver review
Stereo Receiver NAD C 725BEE

In the list of Hi-Fi-components of this famous company, until recently one of only two stereo receiver. And recently there was a third - a much more advanced and even somewhere uncompromising model NAD C 725BEE. In the traditional body design packed NAD electronics, not ashamed to even entry-level High...
NAD C315BEE Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C315BEE

Any craft creates masters. People whose name becomes a kind of quality mark. Who would deny that in the literature and popular movies of the author (director, actor) is crucial? In the field of consumer electronics situation is largely different. And it's not that any device - a product of collective...
NAD C316BEE Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C316BEE

The audiophiles know her well. The brand NAD (New Acoustic Dimension) is originally English and was created in 1972 in London. Its first model, the built-in stereo amplifier 3020, marked its era and was the best-selling product in the history of Hi-Fi with nearly a million copies sold. The C316BEE,...
NAD C320BEE Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C320BEE

The object of our interest is the most affordable amplifier - NAD C320BEE. This is an advanced modification of C320 amplifier. C320BEE differs from the predecessor not only in its titanium-like finish. The circuitry has been slightly reworked, the element base has also been revised. Only the principles...
NAD C325BEE Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C325BEE

Visually this novelty differs from all previous budgetary NAD amplifiers, which the company began to produce already in 1978, by a 3,5-millimeter connector on the front panel - it is designed to connect ipod or any other MP3 player. The amplifier has everything for its price status: an electromechanical...
NAD C326BEE Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C326BEE

C326BEE is the continuer of traditions of the famous 320th series. Having a fairly low price it is equipped to a high standard. In addition to seven inputs for connection of sources, there are two subwoofer outputs, output from the amplifier and Main jacks for usage of terminal section as a power amp....
NAD C338 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C338

Nad is the brand, originally British, which in 1978 launched the 3020, a small affordable audiophile amp that became the best-selling stereo integrated in the history of Hi-Fi, with over a million of copies sold. C338 tries to reiterate the feat of his illustrious ancestor. It is both simple and resolutely...
NAD C340 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C340

It seems that the C340 was conceived by the company to repeat the success of the legendary 3020 amplifier, which began the history of NAD. And this was done already taking into account the accumulated experience and such novelties as the load resistance control circuit (ISC), which controls the operation...
NAD C350 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C350

The family resemblance of this amp to older NAD amplifiers is obvious. There have been developments in areas like styling, but the principal changes externally are in matters of detailing. Internally, crude construction standards and an excess of point-to-point wiring lies in the past, and frame transformers...
NAD C352 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C352

Despite of all structural changes, NAD Electronics continues to be the guardian of Hi-Fi traditions. The British-Canadian company has made a significant progress in the segment of high-class expensive equipment (with new Master series) in recent year, but now we return to "classics" - the line of relatively...
NAD C355BEE Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C355BEE

Letters BEE in the model's name mean that Bjorn Erik Edvardsen, the chief designer and ideologist of NAD, put a hand in its design. It seems that he managed, taking the more expensive amplifier C352 as a basis, to create a new bestseller with minimum compromises. Moreover, some solutions were borrowed...
NAD C356BEE-DAC Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C356BEE-DAC

By functional equipment this amplifier claims to be an absolute leader. In addition to traditional analog input terminals (seven ones), it has a full-fledged digital converter with a USB input. This is done within the framework of the MDC brand concept, according to which a number of NAD models can be...
NAD C370 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C370

The design and finish is typical for Hi-End - grey painted front panel, arranged in a single row small buttons and handles, in the location of which a distinct logic is visible. Mentally move from left to right: turn on the desired pair of speaker systems, choose by the input selector with green LEDs...
NAD C375BEE Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD C375BEE

NAD C375BEE replaced very successful model C372, which was considered as one of the best by sound at a reasonable price. According to the words of the chief engineer and developer of Bjorn Erik Edvardsen (his BEE initials are in the title), the device is very close by its sound characteristics to the...
NAD C422 Tuner review
Tuner NAD C422

This NAD C422 is finished in an attractive silver. The front panel is a simple affair, discretely styled with a tuning "knob" to the right of the display and a set buttons to the left of the display for Preset/ Tune, Display, AM/ FM, FM Mute/ Mode, Memory and Blend. The Blend feature is like a noise...
NAD C510 Preamplifier-dac review
Preamplifier-dac NAD C510

At first glance NAD 510 gives the impression of really simple device completely dedicated to its core tasks. The front panel also found only a potentiometer for setting the volume, two buttons which we choose active input and quite simple and easy to read vacuum fluorescent display with the possibility...
NAD C515 CD-player review
CD-player NAD C515

NAD offers several CD-players for different cost, and C515 is one of the most affordable among them. Nevertheless, it has a full range of functionality, including currently important playback of mp3 and WMA files. Despite the modest price tag, the device is equipped with a modern DAC (delta/sigma with...
NAD C521BEE CD-player review
CD-player NAD C521BEE

Many people, including us, are already used to the inconspicuous design of NAD components. Imagine our surprise when we unpacked the device with the front panel, which was coldly but stylishly cast with titanium. In all other respects, NAD stayed the same: a minimal set of controls on the front panel,...
NAD C525BEE CD-player review
CD-player NAD C525BEE

As is known to all self-respecting audiophiles letters in the name of BEE NAD models indicate that to them a hand Bjorn Erik Edvardsen himself (Bjorn Erik Edvardsen). He began working with the company in 1970, creating a legendary amplifier NAD 3020. He now holds the position of director of development,...
NAD C542 CD-player review
CD-player NAD C542

The new NAD C542 is what the automotive press would call a "facelift." They took the C541i, which managed to excel more than once in the tests of mid-range players, slightly changed the finish, improved the remote control (now the player is equipped with a remote control with large buttons and an extended...
NAD C545BEE CD-player review
CD-player NAD C545BEE

The appearance of NAD C545 is no longer as conservative and unshowy as before, but while maintaining a recognizable corporate style, the designers managed to make it more animated. The player is a creatively redesigned version of the very successful NAD C542, which has received many prestigious awards...
NAD C546BEE CD-player review
CD-player NAD C546BEE

The numbers are confusing - I've never understood hi-fi manufacturers' propensity for attaching numerals to their products, instead of proper names. NAD's system goes back decades, and some of those numbers on its integrated amps have become classic, like "3020". The C546BEE, however, has a shorter pedigree,...
NAD C565BEE CD-player review
CD-player NAD C565BEE

Long ago NAD got us used to the fact that there are few products equal by quality/price ratio. And C565BEE seems to be a particularly good buy due to the following. Although this player does not support super formats, the range of its capabilities is much wider than in other music players. NAD C565BEE...
NAD D 1050 DAC review
DAC NAD D 1050

As it is stated in the signature description of the NAD D 1050 DAC, it is "the best aid to connect your music computer to the Hi-Fi-system". Optimism is the inherent quality of the professional marketers, but the authority of the NAD still allows us to hope that this phrase has a big grain of truth. It...
NAD D 3020 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD D 3020

When the D 3020 came out last year, I thought it a little odd. I didn't quite 'get it', and failed to see why NAD would change the form factor so dramatically. Now, though, the idea has sunk in. Just as the original late seventies 3020 was a genre-defining product - a small, compact, black integrated...
NAD L73 DVD-receiver review
DVD-receiver NAD L73

Deceptive appearance of L73 - a new DVD-receiver of NAD. Frankly, when you look at the front panel with its ridiculous oval buttons, tray loader and display, can not help thinking that the same frivolity going on in his inside. But it is necessary to look at the L73 closely, and from those thoughts and...
NAD M15HD Processor review
Processor NAD M15HD

Series Master occupies the highest position in the hierarchy of NAD, because the design and manufacture of its constituent units emphasize quality of the materials used, components and the overall level of the assembly. In this sense, the processor NAD M15HD is absolutely impossible to find fault. Impressive...
NAD M25 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD M25

When you rate a power amplifier, you often pay attention to its weight. Indeed, at the use of classical amplification schemes this parameter determines the quality of the component quite accurately, because the power supply unit and cooling radiators of the output stages mainly contribute to it. NAD...
NAD M3 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD M3

The NAD M3 amplifier has a solid design, construction and weight. The side panels, made in the form of heat sinks, solve all the problems with heat dissipation. The back panel is memorable with very high quality WBT connectors. The front panel is nicely rounded on the sides, has a blue display and a...
NAD M51 DAC review
DAC NAD M51

The M51 DAC is made with the company's inherent solidity and extensive functionality. Despite the slim body, the device has a massive front panel made of aluminum. It is extremely laconic - power switch, display and input selection button. The remote control is included. The M51 is not only suitable...
NAD System 820 5.1 system review
5.1 system NAD System 820

English NAD, recent years focuses on the creation of Hi-Fi-electronics, once again demonstrating their "acoustic muscles". System 820 - a variant of multi-sets based on the new original series four classic 2-way bookshel speakers 820, classic center 820C and subwoofer 800SW with slot bass reflex port...
NAD T524 DVD-player review
DVD-player NAD T524

Model T514 enjoyed good success with followers of the brand, and when she did a bit outdated (in particular, became popular support DivX), the designers did not make a fuss, and published a new model, which is like two peas similar to the old, and they are sold in parallel - not all because of the swing...
NAD T532 DVD-player review
DVD-player NAD T532

NAD T532 machine creators relied on solutions, tested by time. Plastic front panel with rounded edges is made in the traditional style of NAD. The location and shape of the tray, display and controls - classic. It is commendable that the front elevation can choose not only the playback speed, but the...
NAD T535 DVD-player review
DVD-player NAD T535

The first thing you notice - high quality performance. The front panel is made of plastic, but it evokes a feeling of strength and solidity - in the same way as the traditional NAD remote control - large, uhvatisty with powerful rubber buttons that will not be the demolition of many years. The full-size...
NAD T567 Blu-ray player review
Blu-ray player NAD T567

The simplicity and conciseness can be attractive if aesthetically understood and conceptual. As an example, the design of the player NAD. The company, by the way, has always gravitated to this style, but in the model T567, it is expressed, in my opinion, the most successful. Tray loader made extremely...
NAD T585 DVD-player review
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...
NAD T742 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T742

Equipment of NAD is the example of healthy conservatism in circuit technique and design. Only recently some models gained a noble silver panel. As for the rest, design of the front panel of NAD T742 (except for a plastic plug of AV input) is traditional: round buttons and monochrome fluorescent display...
NAD T743 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T743

The time-tested Hi-Fi solutions reign in the construction of NAD receiver: working for the front pre-amplifiers are connected with corresponding power amplifiers by removable jumpers; there are a switchable Soft Clipping limiter, attenuator of analog inputs and two (!) outputs for subwoofer. The concept...
NAD T744 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T744

Selecting the AV-receiver is not easy, here we have to consider a lot of factors and characteristics that are not always a virtue inexperienced buyer. Many rely on the advice of the seller, but what can help a person who is not familiar with your tastes and ideas about the right sound? We will try as...
NAD T747 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T747

NAD adheres to its branded principle, which can be formulated as follows: "excellent results for little money." In other words, nothing more, just the necessary functions and maximum attention to the signal path. NAD T747 receiver has HD decoders, an Audyssey auto-calibration system, ports for connecting...
NAD T748 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T748

NAD T748 is made in the usual for the devices of this brand colors and designed for work in the system of the middle class. It is equipped with seven-channel amplification section (40 W at full load) and can decode a full spectrum of modern sound formats. The switching is expanded by means of four 1.4...
NAD T750 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T750

According to the description it seems that the developers include the technical characteristics of their vehicles to classified information, or believe that the buyer is certainly more important than the end result than the boring specification... Anyway, but no technical data in the passport is not...
NAD T753 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T753

The front panel of NAD T753 receiver with traditional design does not look overloaded with controls, but the adjustment of all basic functions is available from it. A small lid protects AV-connectors on the facade against dust. The large mass of the receiver (20 kg) is explained by the presence of a...
NAD T754 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T754

When I got acquainted with NAD T754, a sense of deja vu immediately arose - all this I had seen before. Two already familiar remote controls are in the kit - the main and optional. There are a characteristic back panel with jumpers and a bottom with a pair of low-noise fans. I admit that the design of...
NAD T754 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T754

Design. Frankly, our view of any NAD product of traditional design evokes persistent associations with something very strict, if not official. So the cold-gray facade of the T754 receiver does not warm even the fairly bright glow of the fluorescent display. However, this is our taste. An objective drawback...
NAD T755 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T755

The design of NAD T755 receiver is not strict and not even Spartan, but rather audiophile, i.e. extremely functional. On the ash-gray background of the front panel, like on the unpainted canvas, the display is covered by exact strokes of the designer, and below it there are the source selection and tone...
NAD T757 v2 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T757 v2

Model NAD T757 is present in the market for a long time and worked well. But this does not mean that it is obsolete. Technology, denoted by developers as "the most important function" lets you upgrade the device by the upgrade after purchase. Due to the modular circuit breaker remains relevant considerably...
NAD T763 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T763

Many are not crazy about the design of NAD, but it inspires respect by its constancy. In the photos the devices of this company look like gray boxes, but in life - quite a different story. Smooth rows of buttons, a small but elegant display, extremely understandable control algorithm - all of these is...
NAD T773 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver NAD T773

NAD T773 is made by the concept of "two-in-one": a pre-wired block that is responsible for switching, decoding and signal processing, and the seven-channel power amplifier section is, in fact, completely separated. On the back panel you will find a lot of jumpers between the corresponding inputs and...
NAD T955 Amplifier review
Amplifier NAD T955

When someone talks about the advantages of a separate power amplifier over AV receivers, he usually notices that the sound always improves if the input stages and processors sensitive to the crosstalk are located at a distance from sources of strong electromagnetic fields. This is true - with a significant...