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Never liked meters on amps much myself, to be honest.
And that new thing is a pretty poor looker compared to the 1970s original. The wooden (if it is) top is just wrong. Then, look at the markings around the knobs - ???
Don't like the LEDs either. Are the ones under the volume control a nod to the 3020's power lights? Too much with the meters as well, but I guess the meters will turn out to be inaccurate and with those markings they needed some way of having an actual idea of the volume level somewhere...
The original 1970s HDMI input is probably worth having though.
Maybe the entire series fell through the cracks in the US?
Plenty of gear the USA got, that nobody else did and vice versa.
But, you didn't miss much- that NAD range was not exactly anything special and in the flesh, it looked really cheap and nasty alongside Japanese gear of the same era.
And the anodizing. OMG. All the black went bronze, then goldish and then just mottled and horrible. Worse than Proton's anodizing. Terrible. You still see clowns trying to sell their old NAD gear as 'rare copper finish', when it's just degraded black after 40 years...
Maybe the entire series fell through the cracks in the US?
Plenty of gear the USA got, that nobody else did and vice versa.
But, you didn't miss much- that NAD range was not exactly anything special and in the flesh, it looked really cheap and nasty alongside Japanese gear of the same era.
And the anodizing. OMG. All the black went bronze, then goldish and then just mottled and horrible. Worse than Proton's anodizing. Terrible. You still see clowns trying to sell their old NAD gear as 'rare copper finish', when it's just degraded black after 40 years...
I guess that explains why, even though the silver version wasn't common, present day retro reviews of NADs of that period always seem to have the silver models? I'd wondered about that.
The metered versions sold practically zilch in the UK, but by the time I got to looking for my first system in 1980 the 3020 was the only budget amp most places would dream of selling.
I got a used JVC receiver instead. I can't remember why.
The metered versions sold practically zilch in the UK, but by the time I got to looking for my first system in 1980 the 3020 was the only budget amp most places would dream of selling.
I got a used JVC receiver instead. I can't remember why.
I owned the RS11L, a budget model so nothing like that. It was generally OK apart from the awful noisy slider controls for the amp section, but the tuner was OK and I used it as a tuner only for over a decade until a burglar decided to take it off my hands.
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