NAD M17 V2 and M28 x 2 amps
mantis
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Hello everyone,
it's been awhile since I have sold any NAD gear and let me tell you, that's probably going to change.
I have a client that was running Anthem with a Mar Levinson 2 channel amp running his 2 front speakers and that setup sounded good but it always sounded off balance to me. Yes I sold it to him years ago BUT he decided on the Mark Levinson amp, I wanted to run all Anthem for balance reasons.
So he called me a few weeks ago and wanted to upgrade the system. He was looking at Trinnov and I talked him out of it. I feel and this is personal not professionally that the gear is over priced and not worth it.
So we talked about his needs and I ended up on Master series NAD. After setup , calibration and then some Mantis personal tweaking, I got his system sounding the best it ever did and so well balanced. It's a 7.2.4 configuration all Revel Speakers including the subs. All cabling is Audioquest.
The sheer dynamics of that system was incredible. The ability to play quiet passes and then jump out at you on loud passes was breath taking. Movies were just as if not more impressive. And coming from already very nice high end gear, it was amazing how damn good NAD sounded in comparison. I did all the calibrations on the last system and worked hard to get some kind of harmony.
I didn't snap any pics of the new system , stupid of me but I think I have some of the old setup or at least a few. Let me look I'll post a few if I have them.
it's been awhile since I have sold any NAD gear and let me tell you, that's probably going to change.
I have a client that was running Anthem with a Mar Levinson 2 channel amp running his 2 front speakers and that setup sounded good but it always sounded off balance to me. Yes I sold it to him years ago BUT he decided on the Mark Levinson amp, I wanted to run all Anthem for balance reasons.
So he called me a few weeks ago and wanted to upgrade the system. He was looking at Trinnov and I talked him out of it. I feel and this is personal not professionally that the gear is over priced and not worth it.
So we talked about his needs and I ended up on Master series NAD. After setup , calibration and then some Mantis personal tweaking, I got his system sounding the best it ever did and so well balanced. It's a 7.2.4 configuration all Revel Speakers including the subs. All cabling is Audioquest.
The sheer dynamics of that system was incredible. The ability to play quiet passes and then jump out at you on loud passes was breath taking. Movies were just as if not more impressive. And coming from already very nice high end gear, it was amazing how damn good NAD sounded in comparison. I did all the calibrations on the last system and worked hard to get some kind of harmony.
I didn't snap any pics of the new system , stupid of me but I think I have some of the old setup or at least a few. Let me look I'll post a few if I have them.
Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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Not much to see but at least something. Next time I'm over there I'll get some more pics.
Dan
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I was always a big fan of NAD. My first higher end AVR was a stellar T777 that was there flagship model at the time. Sounded fantastic !!"2 Channel & 11.2 HT "Two Channel:Magnepan LRSSchiit Audio Freya S - SS preConsonance Ref 50 - Tube preParasound HALO A21+ 2 channel ampBluesound NODE 2i streameriFi NEO iDSD DAC Oppo BDP-93KEF KC62 sub Home Theater:Full blown 11.2 set up.
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NAD is very good stuff.Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
