As you were in the Navy, I will assume you know what it is to assume. :-)
Anyway, I find it to be dark gear, I am not crazy about it. I wonder if
Arcam may not be a better bang for the buck? I have what was high dollar
gear in it's day, and now it is highly modified, so I really do not know
what is out there....

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Best Regards,

Lou
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For awhile NAD has been all over this ng as being great sounding but of
mediocre build quality. I only have used NAD equipment once and that was
10 years ago. I bought a 3400 integrated amp to replace a Kenwood
integrated I bought overseas. One of the chips burned out when my
roommate accidentally shorted the speakers wires together on one
channel. The local tech wasn't able to order the chip and frankly I
wasn't worried about it since it was a big ugly chip and I didn't have a
lot of money into it since I bought it through the Navy for dirty cheap.
I listened to what was available and walked home with the NAD unit. To
my chagrin, it never measured up to the el cheapo Kenwood. It was flat
sounding. It just didn't have the "it" to it like the Kwood did. I even
went so far as to buy the high dollar ic patch cord to replace the
shorting bars between the pre and amp sections on it. Big mistake there.
I never heard a difference.
That experience put me off on audio salons. The next time through this
particular salon which was 3 years ago I walked away with Monitor Audio
speakers. Great sounding at first but, within a few months I couldn't
stand to listen to them. And they did stop carrying them more so to them
being sold on eBay than anything else.
Back to NAD, did they change since 92-93 time frame? From the experience
of the NAD unit I had I wouldn't touch them with your money.
John