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I've just about had it with NAD. I love the house sound and the price but the reliability. pfft!First, it was the C325BEE switching to standby on its own and then after a while, it wouldn't even get out of standby. Now, my C326BEE turns on from standby mode by itself and while it is on, it switches the the source to CD by itself. I connected my source to the CD input to overcome this behavior but now, the sound is intermittently cutting out. What the hell.Anyway I'm going to shop for another brand since, like my previous C325BEE, this 326 is starting to show signs that it'll probably die sooner or later.I'm currently interested the Musical Fidelity M3si and the Rega Elex-R. I wonder which of the two is closer to the class A/B "NAD sound". Not interested in any of those class D amps.Edit:Okay, now the music is cutting out often and the source keeps on getting stuck to CD. This amp is now unusable. No more NAD for me.
Could it be possible that your room experiences high humidity? Like open windows when it rains?
I was able to home demo a NAD C368 Class D amplifier. It didn't sound good, "manipis" ang tunog. My Brik integrated amp (also class D with only 20 watts per channel) sounded a lot better.
After having read numerous positive reviews about the NAD C368, I borrowed it again and did what one of the reviewers suggested. Avoid the analog connections and just use the digital connections (Toslink and Coaxial). Now it sounds great! Really strong and full bodied sound matched with my Dynaudio Emit M20. I can heartily recommend this amplifier now!
Probably because the line input section converts the analog signal to digital, then coverts it to analog again via its internal DAC. Very anti-purist if you ask me. I have seen too many hifi enthusiast equipment utilizing this method. Questyle CMA600i, KEF LS50 wireless, Marantz HD-DAC1 to name a few. Good thing NAD knows how to design a good DAC so you can some peace of mind that your built-in DAC is quite good.
@ConanHave you heard the NAD M32? I read it's a different type of Class D amp called DigitalDirect where the signal is "digital" up until just before the amp outputs so the amp stage itself functions as the DAC if I understood the literature correctly. I was wondering how it compares to the "analog" Class D NAD C368 and if the M32 really lives up to its rave reviews. I got curious because my Sony NW-A45 Walkman uses a similar digital amplification technology called S-Master HX and I was blown away at how good it sounds on my speakers, headphones and car stereo.I have the KEF LS50W and I've been using my turntable, DACs and my DAP on the analog input and I noticed that the ADC and DSP on it is very transparent. Each sources' distinct sound characteristics gets heard through all that processing so I guess even though the extra conversion step seems counter-intuitive, if it's done right then it doesn't really matter except of course for hi-fi purists.
Same question with sir sidewinder, what can i get for a budget of 50k that would be used for a stereo setup that will allow me to pkqy muaic through spotify? Thanks.
The NAD C368 has built-in Bluetooth. What I do in my setup is I watch YouTube on my smart TV then it's connected to the amp with built-in DAC via optical. The sound is quite good for me.
puso mo bro.♥️
if a manufacturer comes out with a winner like the nad3020, it does not mean that all they put out will be winners too...malas mo kung sa iyo natapat...
have it replaced
buhayin natin tong thread na ito, may bagong order ako sealed naman dumating sa apartment ko, pero ayun NO POWER ang NAD C388 na brandnew delivered sa akin..kakainis 1st NAD amp ko sira pa, sayang araw ko sa amp na ito AMP ka NAD!
local purchase ba o international..? di kaya sa shipping/delivery napaghahagis o napabagsak kaya nagka damage? bnew pa nman yan bro..
lemon☹️care to post details of your experience so we may learn something. pasensya na, no intention to further rub it in
maayos din yan pards kapag nareplace unit, just be patient..