This is a review and detailed measurements of the Behringer NX1000D power amplifier with DSP. It is on kind loan from a member. Can't tell if it is discontinued or not but see it on sale at one place for $299. Retail cost is $549.
I am a fan of orange displays and NX1000D delivers on that (sorry my sample is not powered on):
What I am not a fan of, pun intended, is the super loud fan that stays on all the time. I walked away to go to the bathroom and was so surprised that I could hear it from very far distance in the house. Unless you can put it in a sealed cabinet, I don't see it being useful for hi-fi use. Maybe you can modify it to quiet the fan or make it temperature sensitive.
On the positive front, I really liked the look and feel of the control app that talks to it:
The only thing I did not like about it is that it is not clear when some processing is on or off. For example above, is the peak limiter on or off???
The back panel shows SpeakOn connectors:
And of course combo XLR/1/4 inch balanced inputs. You can bridge the two channels although I did not test this configuration. The "1000" designation is for total amount of power available. As you will see, I was not able to come close to that in stereo use with 4 ohm load.
Behringer NX1000D Measurements
As usual we start with our dashboard:
This is average performance as amplifiers go:
But it is good for pro amps. SNR falls in the same category:
Best in class amplifiers produce 96 dB at 5 watts and we are pretty shy of that. So be mindful of background noise you may get out of your speakers if they are sensitive.
Frequency response thankfully is load independent as the company advertises:
Due to inclusion of DSP though, your bandwidth is severely cut to that of 44.1/48 kHz sampling. So "no high res sampling for you!"
Crosstalk was surprisingly good for the class:
As I hinted, power delivery into 4 ohm is way under specifications:
Even allowing for 1% THD and burst mode, we can't get to the company spec:
How did they get their 300 watt number? Using car stereo "standards?"
Power drops quite a bit into 8 ohm:
Just 78 watts in a pro amplifier??? This is AVR class amount of power, not what you see in this class of product usually.
Multi-tone test shows distortion increasing at both low and high-end of the spectrum:
We see the same in our power testing versus frequency and distortion+noise:
Notice how the 20 Hz distortion rises unusually what way.
Conclusions
We, the home users, look to pro products to get more wattage on the cheap. Behringer unfortunately doesn't give us that here. Instead, it saddles the product with a loud, non-temperature sensitive fan which rules it out of many applications we may have for it. So I don't think it is a fit for what most of us want out of an amplifier even though there are some good qualities like load impedance independence, DSP, low cost, etc.
As is, I can't recommend the Behringer NX1000D.
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I am a fan of orange displays and NX1000D delivers on that (sorry my sample is not powered on):
What I am not a fan of, pun intended, is the super loud fan that stays on all the time. I walked away to go to the bathroom and was so surprised that I could hear it from very far distance in the house. Unless you can put it in a sealed cabinet, I don't see it being useful for hi-fi use. Maybe you can modify it to quiet the fan or make it temperature sensitive.
On the positive front, I really liked the look and feel of the control app that talks to it:
The only thing I did not like about it is that it is not clear when some processing is on or off. For example above, is the peak limiter on or off???
The back panel shows SpeakOn connectors:
And of course combo XLR/1/4 inch balanced inputs. You can bridge the two channels although I did not test this configuration. The "1000" designation is for total amount of power available. As you will see, I was not able to come close to that in stereo use with 4 ohm load.
Behringer NX1000D Measurements
As usual we start with our dashboard:
This is average performance as amplifiers go:
But it is good for pro amps. SNR falls in the same category:
Best in class amplifiers produce 96 dB at 5 watts and we are pretty shy of that. So be mindful of background noise you may get out of your speakers if they are sensitive.
Frequency response thankfully is load independent as the company advertises:
Due to inclusion of DSP though, your bandwidth is severely cut to that of 44.1/48 kHz sampling. So "no high res sampling for you!"
Crosstalk was surprisingly good for the class:
As I hinted, power delivery into 4 ohm is way under specifications:
Even allowing for 1% THD and burst mode, we can't get to the company spec:
How did they get their 300 watt number? Using car stereo "standards?"
Power drops quite a bit into 8 ohm:
Just 78 watts in a pro amplifier??? This is AVR class amount of power, not what you see in this class of product usually.
Multi-tone test shows distortion increasing at both low and high-end of the spectrum:
We see the same in our power testing versus frequency and distortion+noise:
Notice how the 20 Hz distortion rises unusually what way.
Conclusions
We, the home users, look to pro products to get more wattage on the cheap. Behringer unfortunately doesn't give us that here. Instead, it saddles the product with a loud, non-temperature sensitive fan which rules it out of many applications we may have for it. So I don't think it is a fit for what most of us want out of an amplifier even though there are some good qualities like load impedance independence, DSP, low cost, etc.
As is, I can't recommend the Behringer NX1000D.
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