Why shouldn't it be safe? If you don't like it, a serious dealer will take it back.
Hello Pogo,
I think at least here in the forum we should be honest and not spread any marketing nonsense.
My dealer is still willing to take the device back. I'm only keeping it (for now) because I personally get along very well with the sound of my speaker and subwoofer combination with DLBC. But I am on the verge to give up on the M66.
Objectively, I cannot recommend the device in good conscience and I see no reason to justify my purchase in any way. So let's look at what objective reasons it is not safe to buy an M66:
No dealer has to take back a device purchased in a store upon request unless this has been agreed upon in advance. At least this is likely to be the case here in Germany and in the European Union and probably worldwide. There are different rules if you bought the device online, but the risk that the retailer doesn't take the device back and has to be sued remains. In the same way, a retailer could temporarily disappear into bankruptcy.
That wouldn't be so bad if the device was good from a technical point of view.
But it is not. This is what comes to mind when I think of my own device:
1. RS232 and TCP/IP control does not work.
2. The trigger inputs do not work.
3. The device forgets the source-specific screen saver settings (VU meter etc.) when it is unplugged.
4. When you wake up the device from "Deep Standby", the "Stream" is occasionally on "Pause", even if the selected source is an external digital input. The input signal is then blocked.
5. The device cannot (to put it simply) be switched on using the remote control.
Specifically: The M66 can only be switched on with the remote control if the “automatic power saving function” (= switching off after 15 minutes without an input signal) is activated. It says something different in the instructions for the remote control:
"Switch from low power standby mode (no display, NAD logo lit) to operating mode and vice versa."
The “low power standby mode” somehow doesn’t exist at all, only the “deep standby mode”. But I can't get into the alternative "Network Standby Mode" at all, or only if I allow the device to switch off after 15 minutes without an input signal (and the rest of the trigger-controlled system with it...). But I don't want that.
6. Contrary to the description in all instructions, the "Display" button on the remote control only dims the NAD logo, not the display.
7. For a Dirac measurement, the micro must be connected to the computer. If you connect the supplied micro to the M66, it will not be recognized in the Dirac software.
8. Much too loud switching-on crackling especially from the subwoofer after switching it back on from auto standby mode. That alone makes the auto standby mode unusable.
9. No update for three months to improve anything on the M66.
10. No support, neither from NAD nor from "BluOS"...
These were the first objective faults of the device that came to mind. I think for many of us one or two of the points above would be reason enough to return a M66. So why should it be safe to buy it...?
Nocko
