Description
Hybrid Digital Amplification: NAD has moved away from the old-fashioned power-hungry linear power supplies and Class AB output stages that waste nearly half of the energy consumed and produce heat rather than sound. Instead, NAD has developed even better performing circuits based on switch mode power supplies and Class D output stages. Once thought to be inferior to traditional topologies, this new Hybrid Digital Amplifier design is very linear over a wide bandwidth and provides consistent performance into all speaker loads, providing a dramatic advancement over previous Class AB and Class D amplifier designs.
Full Disclosure Power (FDP): NAD uses Full Disclosure Power (FDP), the most demanding criterion for performance measurement. FDP specifies distortion under the most extreme conditions of low impedance loads and frequency extremes, rather than the simple and easy 1kHz @ 8 ohms test quoted by many of other manufactures. NAD uses this stricter performance criterion because it more closely matches the demands of real music and real loudspeakers. Maintaining specified distortion at 4/8O and at 20-20kHz is a much more difficult achievement. The benefit of NAD's Full Disclosure Power is the total elimination of audible distortion at any listening level. This provides pinpoint imaging and realism with music and movies alike.
Performance Specs -
• Watts RMS per Channel (8-ohms): 80
• Watts RMS per Channel (6-ohms): Not given
• Watts RMS per Channel (4-ohms): 80
• Frequency Bandwidth: 20-20k
• THD: 0.04%
• Minimum Impedance: 4 ohms
• Signal to Noise Ratio: 84
Digital Music Features -
• Built-in DAC (Digital to Analog Converter): Yes
• Bluetooth: Built-in 5.0
• Wi-Fi: 802.11ac
Connections -
• Total Analog Inputs: 2
• Phono Input: No
• Optical Digital Inputs: 1
• Coaxial Digital Inputs: 1
• USB Input: No
• Preamp Outputs: Stereo RCA, Sub
• Headphone Output: No
• Removable Power Cord: IEC 3-prong
Full Disclosure Power (FDP): NAD uses Full Disclosure Power (FDP), the most demanding criterion for performance measurement. FDP specifies distortion under the most extreme conditions of low impedance loads and frequency extremes, rather than the simple and easy 1kHz @ 8 ohms test quoted by many of other manufactures. NAD uses this stricter performance criterion because it more closely matches the demands of real music and real loudspeakers. Maintaining specified distortion at 4/8O and at 20-20kHz is a much more difficult achievement. The benefit of NAD's Full Disclosure Power is the total elimination of audible distortion at any listening level. This provides pinpoint imaging and realism with music and movies alike.
Performance Specs -
• Watts RMS per Channel (8-ohms): 80
• Watts RMS per Channel (6-ohms): Not given
• Watts RMS per Channel (4-ohms): 80
• Frequency Bandwidth: 20-20k
• THD: 0.04%
• Minimum Impedance: 4 ohms
• Signal to Noise Ratio: 84
Digital Music Features -
• Built-in DAC (Digital to Analog Converter): Yes
• Bluetooth: Built-in 5.0
• Wi-Fi: 802.11ac
Connections -
• Total Analog Inputs: 2
• Phono Input: No
• Optical Digital Inputs: 1
• Coaxial Digital Inputs: 1
• USB Input: No
• Preamp Outputs: Stereo RCA, Sub
• Headphone Output: No
• Removable Power Cord: IEC 3-prong