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By Regina A. Walter (Indiana)
I purchased this item with very high hopes. About ten years ago I owned a NAD CD player and Amp was it was very smooth. Having had such a poor experience with Blu-Ray I purchased this unit hoping to breath new life into my old DVDs and to re-discover some of the quality that no longer exists in units sold at department stores or at electronic stores. When the unit arrived, it had a very impressive to look at and judging solely on that, it seemed a good buy. Unfortunately you cannot judge a book by it's cover. I did not realize that the unit did not have an HDMI output. This was my error for misreading the product information. I have the Epson 720 projector but I have both component and HDMI connections. I decided to test the unit against the Sony 700 DVD player. It is a decent player but only sells for $75. I was surprised an somewhat dismayed to find that the Sony's image was superior to that of the NAD. This was even true when comparing the conponent progressive scan outputs of both. How was the unit for sound? It would not play MP3 files as it claimed and had serious trouble with CDRs only playing about 10% of those tried. All of which would play in the Sony player. On commerical CDs it performed fine, but again the sound what well below what I remember and about the same quality as the Sony player when connected to a $200 Onkyo receiver. At times the NAD sound on CDs was so bright that it hurt to listen. For movies with a 5.1 soundtrack the NAD was superior to the sony/onkyo combination. Channel seperation was very strong and clean. Two channel sound recordings were very much the opposite. In the dolby surround II setting it was almost impossible to hear the center channel and the rear speakers which is only a reflection of the fronts, were actaully louder than the mains even though the speakers used for the fronts were considerably superior to the surrounds. In all the unit is not worth it's cost even at $ 499. It was returned after only one day.
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