C390DD - Review

I have one and compared it to some pretty expensive stuff on some very revealing gear.

Its the best integrated in its price bracket - no question. It takes much more expensive separates to best it - even separates at two times the price usually can't. A $5k DAC (PDX Level 2) and $6K amp (Arion RS-500) does though - and fairly easily.

It is however very neutral and hence may not be to your taste if you like warmth etc in your equipment.

Thanks
Bill

If you are talking about the NAD 390DD, it's not an overly "present" sounding unit. Are you feeding it USB from your Mac? Played with the speaker impedance settings?

Yes indeed you must use the correct impedance settings for your speaker - if you don't it is a bit ordinary. See the manual how to do that.

Thanks
Bill

Since I posted ,I have downloaded pure music and bitperfect on Mac ..even without any up sampling this sounds much better to me..I have mostly iTunes downloaded songs..the am gs20's are rated at 6 ohm impedance,and I set the same in the nad amp..

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Kalyan

Kalyan, are you getting better results? I'm early in my evaluation of the 390DD but have also found that vocals are quite recessed.