NAD C700

STEREO AMPLIFIERS AMPLIFIER OF THE YEAR $2000-$4000 Our second smart amplifier winner makes an interesting comparison with the first. They both do the same thing, but from different starting points, Denon taking its hi-fi expertise and adding streaming to the front of it, while NAD has put the smart stuff firmly to the fore, most obviously in the 5-inch colour display behind the glass that fronts its solid aluminium body. This display often shows only monochrome things (it defaults to a graphic of VU meters, subject to your preferences) so that you don’t realise it’s full colour until it bursts into life with album art, as well as showing track progress, settings and more. The smart platform is BluOS from NAD’s sister company Bluesound under Lenbrook, offering one of the…

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