“Thirty twenty”. A most common utterance when NAD comes up in hifi conversation; it was the integrated that brought audiophillia to thousands upon thousands of households. The NAD 3020 was – and is – a quintessential piece of everyman hi-fi.  I own one.  It’s a tidy benchmark from which to judge other amplifiers that pass through these doors. Heck, its

ACHTUNG!  Proceed no further until you’ve read Part 1 of the C 390DD coverage. NAD’s Direct Digital amplifier took a mid-review detour.  Australian distributors APG required it for a Sydney Audio Club demo afternoon.  In a large floor-boarded room the NAD drove PSB Imagine T2 floorstander for a gathering of local hi-fi enthusiasts.  Similar to visiting hifi show hotel room

Like the M2 before it, NAD’s mandate with the C 390DD (AU$3000) is obvious from the get go: digital with a capital D. The rear panel says it all: NAD have dispensed with analogue input options – unless you purchase an optional slot-in module – so that the stock C 390DD’s inputs are ALL digital: 2 x coaxial, 2 x

NAD Electronics is now shipping the MDC DAC USB Digital-to-Analogue Converter.  Not a standalone DAC but a module designed specifically for two of the company’s most recognised integrated amplifiers: the C375BEE and C356BEE.  The MDC DAC slots right into the internals of either allowing for up to 24/96 playback over USB and up to 24/192 over optical. The MDC DAC’s

Having just moved house and the new apartment still in disarray, this blog post comes to you from Sydney’s North Shore where a tray of work-shy music lovers had earlier convened for lunch and an afternoon’s DAC auditioning. The key question on this fellow’s mind: is NAD’s M51 DAC as good as initial forum chatter might suggest? Due to the

My day usually begins with emails and social network catch-ups.  I sit at the dining room table with coffee and my hands work a MacBook Air, during which time I nudge album after album from my main rig that sits five or so metres in front of me: a MacMini pushes the audio binary out to an Audiophilleo2, which is