🚀 go-pugleaf

"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message news:<3cf02bd9$0$4694$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Pim" <Pim@Pim.pim> wrote in message news:acp9ku$7rd$1@news.ox.ac.uk...
> > > > I changed my NAD twice, but each unit had other problems.
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> > > Similar experience here.
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> > It's weired - I've heard such conflicting things about all NAD products -
> > had me heart set on a 370 / 270 combo, but then I heard soooooo many poer
> > supply hum problems, that I bailed - since then, I've heard loads of
>  reports
> > about how good / bad all NAD products are - seemingly due to them building
> > them in 2 locations - parrently one factory puts out quality gear, and the
> > other is shite. i can't say whether this is fact or not, but I've heard it
> > from quite a few sources now... seems a pity that a manufacturer that can
> > put out such really high quality gear can let standards slip like that...
> 
> **As a NAD service agent, I must say that I see very small numbers of their
> equipment (a good sign). Build quality, in the latest stuff, looks pretty
> good. Certainly, a cut above the mass market brands. Only Rotel is arguably
> better, IMO. NAD did have a poor reputation for quality, in the mid 1980s,
> but has steadily improved since then.

Unfortunately for NAD, doing nothing to fix my amp when it repeatedly
went wrong in the late 80`s means that i will never buy anything from
them again - there are too many manufacturers producing better stuff
at better prices to make it worth the risk.