This was my unit. I have used this model in my theater in a 7.2.4 atmos setup. In an attempt to find an all in one unit for our living room, I thought I would move it to our living room and try it there. In this typical, unusually shaped living room (that is typically quite noisy) it actually sounds ok with dirac running in a 2.1 setup. The bonus is that it is roon RAAT endpoint. When starting playing from roon it switches to play roon automatically so it is a very family friendly, easy to use unit. Also using the zone 2 and hooking up an inexpensive allo boss for an additional endpoint is quite nice.
This unit is probably sufficient for my living room use. Primary use is watching tv/netflix music via roon (320k aac).
My initial plan was to have one in the theater and another in the living room. However.... these measurements... are really disappointing. I wasn't expecting it to measure all that well considering the measurements we have seen on the receivers measured so far. But definitely didn't anticipate these kind of measurements. With the resources of large companies such as NAD have, there really isn't any excuse for a total disregard of objective measured performance in favor of features.
Now instead of thinking of having 2 of these... it may be either 1 or none...
And thank you to Amir for measuring this and other gear.
This unit is probably sufficient for my living room use. Primary use is watching tv/netflix music via roon (320k aac).
My initial plan was to have one in the theater and another in the living room. However.... these measurements... are really disappointing. I wasn't expecting it to measure all that well considering the measurements we have seen on the receivers measured so far. But definitely didn't anticipate these kind of measurements. With the resources of large companies such as NAD have, there really isn't any excuse for a total disregard of objective measured performance in favor of features.
Now instead of thinking of having 2 of these... it may be either 1 or none...
And thank you to Amir for measuring this and other gear.