Customer Ratings & Reviews

Fantastic sound, lots of problems. After I first set it up the first thing I noticed was how poor the remote was at controlling the device. I use this as an amp for a 2.1 speaker setup for a home PC. Even at point blank the remote sometimes fails to register clicks. When increasing and decreasing volume, unless I hold the buttons down for long periods of time It will not register more than half of the clicks, making it impossible for small changes. I resigned myself to controlling the sound through other means as the remote was simply too cheap. After I first experienced this I should have just returned it right away as it was the preamble for what was to come. Next, this device goes to sleep if "unused" or if no sound is being sent to it for more than about 15 minutes. I think this is due to the fact that it runs HOT. It's basically a mini heater that NEEDs to be set upright or it will overheat. When I'm using my PC there can be long stints where I'm not using sound, and then when I do turn music or a video on the device has shut itself off. So, I have to turn it on again with the finicky remote. This frustrating dance was happening several times a day before I ended up calling NAD and learning it's instead supposed to enter sleep mode and not shut itself OFF. After firmware updates and some more troubleshooting, I was fortunately able to get it to enter sleep mode instead, so it would wake itself up when I needed it. I was happy for a while since the remote was such a pain to work with. It was working good enough for my set up once this issue was resolved UNTIL, after 6 months of use it fails to turn on, flashes red, and turns itself back off. According to their troubleshooting guide it has been bricked. Started horrible, finished worse. This device is my most expensive audio hardware regret.

Its small, but mighty! Don’t be fooled by the 30 watts RMS, NAD delivers power! I like that in this small form factor it comes with optical in, sub out, analog in and a decent headphone amp! Yes, it may have some flaws like a slow startup cycle and it gets about as hot as the top of a toaster oven, but this thing can take a beating! Ive heen using it as my living room sound system for over a year now. Half the time i forget to turn it off, but it just is so reliable and powerful. I do wish it worked better with my LG TV remote, but im fine living with two remotes. Great sound!