Buts it's more expensive and comes in shiny aluminium so it must therefore be better !
Crackpot review ,yes all the boxes ticked . Usually digital disc transports are not very "worth the money" sometimes it is usually the manufacturer taking their most expensive cd player and rips out 2/3 of the innards and double the price ,oh and they migth add an AES/EBU port for you to get all varm and fuzzy about . Is it showing " healty disregard for the price/cost" that impresses some even on this forum. This NAD is actually better than some as it adds streaming , so it's not as useless as a pure disc transport and is probably not a bad product but 10 times to expensive in proportion to performance . Performance is practically the same for all well designed transports so a good piont to compare is the Touch what it costed and what other features you got . Separate transport is the component where you get absolutely least for the money in hifi ( I don't count the cables as components ). But the clientele for the product category is endlessly fascinated by paying these high prices . In general audiophiles gets the components they deserve ;) Wonder why NAd did not throw in thier DAC in the box ? Are they not doing a very good DAC at the moment , this would have turned the table to make the package much more attractive ? That's where products like squeezeboxes are brilliant you get a transport to a proper price and all the added bodies of streaming and multi room ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
