All New NAD Master M33 Integrated Amp // GAME CHANGER ?..

let us know tony

there is no doubt in my mind the m33 will be improved from the poor m10 but that is a low bar...

leave aside matching your ARC tube gear... i would be happy to hear it get close a lower end hegel in purity of tone and relaxed dimensional sound

so sad when tourette’s syndrome so badly afflicts an a-gon member

maybe we can set up a donation site to help

twoleftears you can out your money where your mouth is HAHAHAHAHA

@spacemanrick

tell us how the m33 works out... it is new enough that there won’t be much in way of user reviews for a bit, just commercial and ’influencer’ reviews all part of the rollout marketing campaign

there is no doubt the sound will have improved over the lackluster m10, question is how much and of what nature is the improvement

what i can tell you is that the hegel h390 is one of the best ss amps out there... they have really figured something out in the error correction circuitry of the amp that makes it sound incredibly clean yet still with tone/body and depth to the stage... truly impressive - h390's are back ordered as well so not easy to get one currently -- of course the hegels are class ab and do not have room correction

@spacemanrick

rick there is no way to know how this would sound in your system unless you try it - other folks can describe using words but it really tells one very little

"wow that mustang is fast car...i am so impressed "
"cool, so what is your usual car?"
" i normally drive an explorer"

nad no doubt has improved the SQ of their new unit... their prior series was embarrassing, for what it was marketed to be... a ’master series’ component -- features wise it offered a lot, esp dirac for folks with impossible rooms, but put it up against a serious high end amp with proper tone and realism - amp vs amp - the SQ gap was large

@nyaudio98 

some of us here mean well but are just afflicted with sadly limited vocabularies hehehehe

hi end ... low end

luxury... value

premium... budget

all in eye of beholder

but 'game changer'?  seriously doubt it

nad, the smart guys that they are, are as good marketers as they are product development folks...

...if you listening carefully -- that whooshing sound you hear in the background is the sound of internet hype, the current day winning marketing lever for many a savvy hifi brand

don’t get me wrong, nad has made good stuff for years, high value, good performance - it was one of my beloved early pieces in my college years when money was very tight

in more recent years they made quite a mistake (sq wise, not commercially...) going to ice power class d module amplification, which neutered what was the earlier, lively musical tone of their amps such as the great 3020 which put them on the map

they may have corrected this finally with a newer better class d module in this just-introduced ’flagship’ all in one model

but making a decidely bad sounding high line unit now less bad sounding does not make for any ’game changing’ -- just putting it into perspective folks

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