NYC area - NAD 2200 amplifier, professionally serviced and modded

nspindel

I'm looking for $400 for this amp. I live in Connecticut, and would be willing to drive up to an hour to meet someone and do an in-person deal. I don't have the original box, so I'd need to get a box big enough to ship this. I'd much prefer meeting someone locally, but if I need to ship it I will.

I have (copies) the marketing brochure/specs, the instruction manual, and the service manual with schematics.

If you google "NAD 2200 repair" the first link you will find is this one:

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/stereorepair117/NAD.htm

Wayne at Inn House Service Company is known to do great mods to these NAD's. These are really good amps, but were known to have a manufacturing issue with cold solder joints on the speaker relays. Wayne does a complete replacement of the relays, cap upgrades, and removes the power regulation features that were built into this amp at the detriment of sound quality. This is his $175 mod package.

In addition, I paid extra and also had Wayne recable the AC wiring into the transformer, and install a Furotech IEC so you can use the power cable of your choice. Back in the days when this amp was new, the power wire they used was practically lamp cord. Wayne didn't really have the correct tools to cut an opening in the chassis, but he did the best he could. The results are pictured.

There are many threads on this forum where this amp is discussed, including other people talking about Wayne's service. With the mods done to this piece, this will be a great power amp for many years. I ran SDA's on it for a while, it handled them with no problem.

One other person on this forum heard this amp with my SDA 2B's. Here's what he said about the sound when I was selling the 2B's (granted he's talking about the speakers, but gotta have a good amp to make them sound like this!):

Gaara wrote: »

More of a lurker these days but when I see my name mentioned I gotta chime in. I will keep it short and sweet, if you have $1k to spend on speakers buy these and spend the other $500 on new music.

You know those moments when you hear a system that just sounds so good you want nothing more then to listen longer? I paid nspindel a visit a while back and even though it was late and I had a ~2hr drive home I wanted nothing more then to sit there and listen to more music.

A few things that stuck out in my mind when listening to these, the first was that they sound huge yet disappear leaving you with a wall of sound. The soundstage seemed to expand much past the boundaries of the speakers, leaving you with sound as big as your room. I honestly expected big sound going to hear them the first time, but never imagined they would image so well. So now you have not just a expansive soundstage, but you can hear where each instrument is playing from. Then there was the prodigious bass which also wasn't really expected. I opened my eyes and scanned the room at least 3 times looking for the subwoofer. I have never experienced bass this deep or tight coming from any speaker. I have never gotten my SVS PB2+ to perfectly integrate my Gallos, and I imagine if I did it would sound like Neil's SDAs.

These things reminded me alot of my Gallo Ref3.1s, except I paid $2600 for my Gallos and these are $500. If anyone wants to get into real hi-fi for not much coin, here is your chance. Oh yeah, and Neil is a great guy

nguyendot

That's a gnarly IEC job there..

nspindel

Yeah.... It sounds better than it looks. In fairness to Wayne, he wasn't psyched to do that work, he warned me in advance that it wasn't going to be pretty. But at the end of the day the part that doesn't look so hot is facing back. The part that you actually see looks fine. I'd rather have quality AC wiring in the chassis and a power cord of my choice. But no, it's not the prettiest looking work in the world.

Polkie2009

You make a good point there nspindel, the IEC can't be seen from the front and the best part is that you can now use an upgraded PC:)

cordesc

Hello Neil. Is the NAD Modded Amp still for sale?

nspindel

I haven't been actively trying to sell it, but if a buyer came along I'm sure something could be worked out. Where are you located?

nspindel

Bumping this back up to the foreground. I am now back to trying to sell this amp. I had listed it for sale, but never really tried all that hard to move it. Reason being I wanted to re-evaluate this amp once I got my 4.1TL's built, and have it go head to head with my Krell, and see if maybe I'd sell the Krell instead. Well...... The Krell wins. That's not a criticism of this amp, it sounded really good with the 4.1TL's. But it's definitely bested by the Krell. That shouldn't be a surprise, I really wouldn't expect this NAD to be able to hold ground against a $3600 amp. But it does sound great for $400!

I am now willing to ship this amp, so no need to find someone in NYC area who wants it.

Please PM me with interest.

nspindel

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nspindel

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