Simplicity in Design. Clarity in Sound.
At NAD Electronics an obsession for music, and a traditional commitment to sonic and visual fidelity, have remained steadfast over our 36 year history. So has our quest for ever-greater simplicity, innovation, and user-friendliness. Since these also happen to be the values of many of the world’s most demanding reviewers, the critics have raved about NAD audio excellence and have made us something of a performance standard in the audio/video world.
Distinctive products seek a selective audience. NAD’s intent, by design, is to meet and even exceed the highest audio and video expectations of serious performance enthusiasts. Artistic authenticity—the ambition to achieve the highest accuracy in the reproduction of the artist’s original creation—drives every design decision at NAD. Whether the medium is music or movies; our objective is to place the NAD owner in the heat of the action of a theatrical blockbuster, or third-row-center stage of a favourite musical event. Solid engineering, honest power, and a passion for realism are NAD’s recipe for achieving this goal.
Given the excitement and impact of home theatre, it can be easy to overlook that music remains the truest test of any audio system. Every NAD component is conceived and engineered with this “Music First” design mandate: a commitment to deliver a true high-fidelity music listening experience. So while we insist that NAD designs reproduce the full impact of a surround sound movie, we equally demand the purity of a brilliantly played and masterfully recorded classical composition or jazz session. Only components that deliver this with effortless power and resolve, can satisfy NAD’s “Music First” credo.
Justasessential,NADcomponentspreservetheartisticintentofmusicians,producers, and directors, despite the obstacles that system-setup and room acoustics can so often present. Put another way, NAD receivers, amplifiers, and source components don’t just work perfectly in ideal setups, they’re engineered to deliver benchmark-quality sound and picture for real people, living in the real world. Listen, and read beyond the hype. Visit your NAD audio-video specialist to discover first-hand how everything you’ll hear is true.
NAD performance is supported by our
“Full-Disclosure” specifications, rather than specs created by engineers to fulfill the needs of marketing-driven brochures.
Paradoxically, plenty of engineers do in fact choose NAD. So do thousands of others; less technical but no less demanding music and film lovers who make the effort to research, listen, and read beyond the hype.
NAD T175 AV Tuner Preamplifier
Audio. Video. NAD.
NAD’s home theatre designs reflect a philosophy quite distinct from that of most mass-market receivers, separate components, and DVD players today. Our “Music First” credo mandates that we enrich our audio/video products with the same tonally pure, dynamically thrilling performance that makes listening to music through our world-renowned stereo components so very compelling.Thisstandsinstarkcontrasttoourcompetitors,somanyofwhom conceive audio/video components overwhelmingly from a “feature content” point of view—with sound quality found well down the list of priorities.
Yet NAD AV receivers, AV component separates, and DVD players are second to none in terms of flexibility, usability and highly developed digital technology. While they may avoid features that are of purely “gee-whiz” value, they are richly endowed with sophisticated, thoughtful functions whose genuine usefulness have proven themselves beyond question.
As an example, take NAD’s uniquely enhanced Audyssey™ MultEQ XT auto set-up and room-calibration—perhaps the most advanced and most musically and sonically effective application of audio digital processing on any AV component. Examine NAD’s well-considered approach to HDMI™, the single-cable, High-Definition Multimedia Interface that is a key enabling technology of today’s AV gear. Every one of the NAD AV receivers and preamp-processor features HDMI inputs and switching supporting native resolutions up to and including 1080p. The T175, T785 and T775 add even more HDMI functionality—with audio processing and On-Screen Display. Our intuitive on-screen menu/ display system, makes operation fast and user friendly. Look at our receivers’ and preamp’s simple but comprehensive iPod® integration, via NAD’s optional IPD-1 Dock, or our equally simple, one-cable XM Satellite Radio/DAB options.
NAD AV Separates
Audio-Video separate components define the height of AV reproduction. The NAD T175 AV Tuner Preamp marries sophisticated performance to a most welcome simplicity of setup and operation, while the 5-channel NAD T955 and 7-channel T975 power amplifiers form the perfect accompaniments. Together, our AV separates combine the flexibility and up-to-the-minute digital technology and connectivity to control even the most sophisticated home theatre and multiroom system. Whether watching the latest film or enjoying your most cherished music, you’ll be immersed in detailed, convincing sound and pristine picture as never before.
NAD T975 7-Channel Power Amplifier (bottom) & T955 5-Channel Power Amplifier
Modular Design Concept
A modular design concept places all input circuitry on five easily removable plug-in cards. This superior construction technique “future-proofs” your investment via the capability for easy upgrades, fast and easy service and improved sound and video performance due to the neat internal layout.
HDMI and Format Conversion
Utilizing the latest HDMI 1.3 chips from Analog Devices all resolutions (480, 576, 720 and 1080) are supported.
Analogue inputs are upconverted to HDMI and HDMI sources preserve their original resolutions up to 1080p, so you know you are getting the purest audio and video performance.
Audyssey Auto Setup and Room Calibration
Using the supplied microphone, Audyssey™ Auto Setup performs all speaker settings. NAD’s proprietarily enhanced Audyssey MultEQ XT technology enables home theatres to sound the way they were intended in every seat by removing the distortion caused by room acoustics.
It is performance first that makes these components unmistakably NAD. There’s no magic formula, but it begins by following our “Music First” credo. NAD designs are shaped by dedicated professionals such as Bjorn Erik Edvardsen, the company’s Director of Advanced Development, whose reputation for innovative audio design is as thoroughly established internationally as is NAD’s at large. Superior circuit design, critical parts selection, and meticulous construction techniques
NAD T535 DVD/SACD Player (top) & T775 AV Surround Sound Receiver
lead to superior performance, as does a design philosophy that values concentrated, expert listening and viewing evaluations just as highly as test-bench measurements. Today, when all too many manufacturers seem content to deliver marketing-driven, unnecessarily feature-laden “brochure performers,” and thus an ever-more complex user experience. NAD chooses to pursue a path less followed. Our AV receivers and amplifiers produce more usable, real-world power, so regardless of published
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