A Favourite Thing: NAD C521 CD player (NAD C 521)

Member Name: fellie

Product:	NAD C 521
Date:	07/08/02 (4288 review reads)
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Advantages: clarity, discrete, matching!

Disadvantages: non

This op goes with my NAD C320 amplifier one!! They get used together, so please feel free to read both to get a fuller picture!!


A perfect match to the afore-mentioned amplifier in style and colour, the NAD was an almost unconcious, pre-made decision.

NADs entry level cd player, now superseded and available on the net for some awesome prices!! The 521i is the replacement, looks exactly the same, slightly dearer, but possibly not worth paying almost twice the amount my excellent 521 is now avaiolable for!!

The NAD certainly looks nothing special, a dark grey finish, as is common with a majority of NAD hi-fi equipment. It hides on your shelf, being all conspicuous, with no hint of its presence except for a very discreet light blue display, and the green ' power on light'. But the sound that it gives to it's partnering amplifier, well, it defies belief.
As with many sceptical people, I thought 'real hi-fi' components were for the fortunate, relativey well off few.
How wrong!!! Take some advice, never, never buy an all in one music system. The sound that eminates from the NAD equipment is sublime!!!! It 'will' have you listening to your whole CD collection, in search of all the musicality you may have been missing!!

Praise aside, obviously NAD have upgraded this unit, so even they have found a way of making it's entry level equipment 'better'.

The remote is never used, once all set up and play is pressed, the only time I return to the NAD, is to press play again.
The unit is solidly built, perfectly finished facia, easy to use controls, solid 'clicking' buttons, noiseless operation, I fail to find any cause for complaint. Music is fed to the amplifier, via Profigold interconnects. Hard to tell if this made a difference to the original ones. But its good to know that the signal, has next to no known impedence on its journey to the amp.

fellie....



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