Comments on NAD Cassette Players/NAD Gear

[sctvguy1]

My Monitor Series 6100 had to go into the shop after 21 years of great
playing. I got a mint 614 in the interim. It plays really sweet. I did
notice that on eBay, NAD equipment goes for a lot of money. When I
bought my system in 1990, I bought Adcom amps/preamps/CD player and the
NAD Cassette.
What are your comments on NAD equipment? I am thinking of buying an NAD
amp for our new HD/TV to enhance the sound.
Thanks

[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

sctvguy1 wrote:

> My Monitor Series 6100 had to go into the shop after 21 years of great
> playing. I got a mint 614 in the interim. It plays really sweet. I
> did notice that on eBay, NAD equipment goes for a lot of money.

Ebay prices are not indicative of quality but of the result of whatever
forces influence the market. Some of the time the mechanisms driving the
prices are unsimple.

Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Chuck[_10_]]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:40:48 GMT, sctvguy1 >
wrote:

>My Monitor Series 6100 had to go into the shop after 21 years of great
>playing. I got a mint 614 in the interim. It plays really sweet. I did
>notice that on eBay, NAD equipment goes for a lot of money. When I
>bought my system in 1990, I bought Adcom amps/preamps/CD player and the
>NAD Cassette.
>What are your comments on NAD equipment? I am thinking of buying an NAD
>amp for our new HD/TV to enhance the sound.
>Thanks


As a person who has done warranty service for both NAD and Adcom, I'd
buy an Adcom amp over a NAD. We used to use Adcom equipment in venues
where they were powered on 24 hour a day and heavily used 16 hours a
day and they played for years without failure. Chuck

[Olafur Gunnlaugsson[_2_]]

Þann 22/06/2011 16:49, skrifaði Chuck:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:40:48 GMT, >
> wrote:
>
>> My Monitor Series 6100 had to go into the shop after 21 years of great
>> playing. I got a mint 614 in the interim. It plays really sweet. I did
>> notice that on eBay, NAD equipment goes for a lot of money. When I
>> bought my system in 1990, I bought Adcom amps/preamps/CD player and the
>> NAD Cassette.
>> What are your comments on NAD equipment? I am thinking of buying an NAD
>> amp for our new HD/TV to enhance the sound.
>> Thanks
>
>
> As a person who has done warranty service for both NAD and Adcom, I'd
> buy an Adcom amp over a NAD. We used to use Adcom equipment in venues
> where they were powered on 24 hour a day and heavily used 16 hours a
> day and they played for years without failure. Chuck

Given that Adcom have been at the least 4 different companies with
wildly different designs and manufacture, which Adcom are you referring
to ? The current Asian company or the USA Adcom of 15 years ago? or one
of the in-betweens?

Always weird to see people recommend brands rather than products, I
guess with companies that are totally integrated like Behringer or IAG
(Quad, Wharfedale, Castle etc) or companies that are mostly integrated
like Matsu****a (Panasonic, Technics, JVC et. al.) this may make sense
to a degree since there will be a some sort of design and manufacturing
commonality, but brands that rely mostly on OEMs and ODM's like NAD and
Adcom will by definition not have any coherency in design or execution

[Scott Dorsey]

Chuck > wrote:
>
>As a person who has done warranty service for both NAD and Adcom, I'd
>buy an Adcom amp over a NAD. We used to use Adcom equipment in venues
>where they were powered on 24 hour a day and heavily used 16 hours a
>day and they played for years without failure. Chuck

NAD and Adcom both make good stuff and bad stuff. While I think the
GFA-535 is really one of my favorite amps, some of the other stuff they
have made has not been so great.

Both have a good reputation for making higher than average quality consumer
gear without any craziness.

Both also have a reputation for occasionally doing bizarre things in designs
that can make repair work an adventure.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Chuck[_10_]]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:18:45 +0100, Olafur Gunnlaugsson
> wrote:

>Þann 22/06/2011 16:49, skrifaði Chuck:
>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:40:48 GMT, >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My Monitor Series 6100 had to go into the shop after 21 years of great
>>> playing. I got a mint 614 in the interim. It plays really sweet. I did
>>> notice that on eBay, NAD equipment goes for a lot of money. When I
>>> bought my system in 1990, I bought Adcom amps/preamps/CD player and the
>>> NAD Cassette.
>>> What are your comments on NAD equipment? I am thinking of buying an NAD
>>> amp for our new HD/TV to enhance the sound.
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> As a person who has done warranty service for both NAD and Adcom, I'd
>> buy an Adcom amp over a NAD. We used to use Adcom equipment in venues
>> where they were powered on 24 hour a day and heavily used 16 hours a
>> day and they played for years without failure. Chuck
>
>Given that Adcom have been at the least 4 different companies with
>wildly different designs and manufacture, which Adcom are you referring
>to ? The current Asian company or the USA Adcom of 15 years ago? or one
>of the in-betweens?
>
>Always weird to see people recommend brands rather than products, I
>guess with companies that are totally integrated like Behringer or IAG
>(Quad, Wharfedale, Castle etc) or companies that are mostly integrated
>like Matsu****a (Panasonic, Technics, JVC et. al.) this may make sense
>to a degree since there will be a some sort of design and manufacturing
>commonality, but brands that rely mostly on OEMs and ODM's like NAD and
>Adcom will by definition not have any coherency in design or execution


As I have been out of the audio industry for about a decade, I didn't
know they had been bought out. It might be of interest to you that,
from the beginning, the circuit boards were populated in the Orient
and that only the final assembly was done in the U.S.. Chuck

[Gareth Magennis]

"sctvguy1" > wrote in message
...
> My Monitor Series 6100 had to go into the shop after 21 years of great
> playing. I got a mint 614 in the interim. It plays really sweet. I did
> notice that on eBay, NAD equipment goes for a lot of money. When I
> bought my system in 1990, I bought Adcom amps/preamps/CD player and the
> NAD Cassette.
> What are your comments on NAD equipment? I am thinking of buying an NAD
> amp for our new HD/TV to enhance the sound.
> Thanks


That takes me back.
I had a NAD 3020 integrated amp in the early 1980's. It definitely had a
"sound", until I pretty much cluelessly poked about inside and bypassed the
tone control circuitry. Then it sounded 100 times better, albeit with some
loss of gain, rectified by turning the volume control up.



Gareth.

[Olafur Gunnlaugsson[_2_]]

Þann 23/06/2011 18:34, skrifaði Chuck:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:18:45 +0100, Olafur Gunnlaugsson
> > wrote:
>
>> Þann 22/06/2011 16:49, skrifaði Chuck:
>>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:40:48 GMT, >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My Monitor Series 6100 had to go into the shop after 21 years of great
>>>> playing. I got a mint 614 in the interim. It plays really sweet. I did
>>>> notice that on eBay, NAD equipment goes for a lot of money. When I
>>>> bought my system in 1990, I bought Adcom amps/preamps/CD player and the
>>>> NAD Cassette.
>>>> What are your comments on NAD equipment? I am thinking of buying an NAD
>>>> amp for our new HD/TV to enhance the sound.
>>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> As a person who has done warranty service for both NAD and Adcom, I'd
>>> buy an Adcom amp over a NAD. We used to use Adcom equipment in venues
>>> where they were powered on 24 hour a day and heavily used 16 hours a
>>> day and they played for years without failure. Chuck
>>
>> Given that Adcom have been at the least 4 different companies with
>> wildly different designs and manufacture, which Adcom are you referring
>> to ? The current Asian company or the USA Adcom of 15 years ago? or one
>> of the in-betweens?
>>
>> Always weird to see people recommend brands rather than products, I
>> guess with companies that are totally integrated like Behringer or IAG
>> (Quad, Wharfedale, Castle etc) or companies that are mostly integrated
>> like Matsu****a (Panasonic, Technics, JVC et. al.) this may make sense
>> to a degree since there will be a some sort of design and manufacturing
>> commonality, but brands that rely mostly on OEMs and ODM's like NAD and
>> Adcom will by definition not have any coherency in design or execution
>
>
> As I have been out of the audio industry for about a decade, I didn't
> know they had been bought out. It might be of interest to you that,
> from the beginning, the circuit boards were populated in the Orient
> and that only the final assembly was done in the U.S.. Chuck

It is now Asian owned