Nad 3020 bee

I go way back with NAD amplifiers ; I sold dozens of NAD's amps in the late s and early s when I was working as a high-end audio salesman. The lacked the visual pizzazz of the Sony, Onkyo, Pioneer, and Yamaha amps of the time, but the was hailed by critics and consumers as the best-sounding budget amp of the era. It went on to become the best-selling amp of the time. Not bad for a company that no one in the US had heard of a few years earlier. It looked right, very much in the basic, no-frills NAD tradition, so it's short on features, but as soon as I hooked it up to a pair of Klipsch Heresy III speakers review in the works , the sound was everything I hoped for.

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• NAD 3020 Integrated Amplifiers
• That Was Then... NAD 3020 review
• "nad amplifiers" in Classifieds in Ontario
• NAD's overachieving budget audiophile amplifier
• NAD D 3020 V2 review
• NAD D 3020 V2 – Was Class D a Smart Choice?
• Bjorn Erik Edvardsen: RIP (1945-2018)

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User Name Stay logged in? Shawn, You being in Victoria, there is a good chance i sold that when it was new And did it ever give that amp some kick. You can certainly tweak a to be quite a bit better, but it will never be a cost effective project.

I tried to remove tone controls once, i ended up using that one as parts, so not a mod to take lightly -- does get a lot of stuff out of the signal path thou. The biggest changes come about by changing caps. I worked with one guy in MN who replaced every cap and many Rs while keeping the unit cosmetically stock.

It became a real sleeper. In a lot of cases you can't use poly caps so black gates are called for. He also upped the size of some of the caps, but you have to be really careful mucking with the reg board which is for everything but the output stage as it is carefully tuned and eay to throw off. That said a is actually a better candidate for modding as there is more room and it is much easier to rplace the flakey connecters.

Stay home. Respect the 2m bubble. Find More Posts by planet Dave, Actually, I bought this one off ebay By reg board, do you mean the smaller ps board mounted on the back panel?

It has two uF 35V caps so I'm guessing this is for the pre-amp power section. It sounds like you're suggesting just replacing with like-sized caps would be wise for this section, especially for a novice? I'm still trying to get a handle on the layout and studying the schematics to place everything and try to understand how it all works The simplest and perhaps most obvious upgrade -and it is free- is to remove the nasty break-off contacts in the headphone connector from the output signal path.

Best do this by shortening the the path, by taking the signal directly to the speaker terminals. But through the zobel thing, needlesss to say. Also remove thermo-mechanical protection units in small black plastic housing , these are meant as a protection agains lasting, heavy abuse "party fuse". If I remember right, they are about 0,2 ohm, but the ohms are not as important as are the contacts. I am a contact freak. Remember also that we are dealing with huge amounts of current, relative to the low impedances in question.

The contact issue is probably times more important than the silly cable issue! If you believe that the 0,2 ohm resistance plays a part in design, you can always use an ordinary resistor instead of the thermo thing, instead of just shortening its terminals.

WHen I was a money-lacking student I experimented a lot with the , using the power sections in multi-amp setups. I still have 5 or 6 of them laying about unused, both old and new versions. The traditionally sounds too weak with these demanding speakers, but with help of the loudness button and some bass knob adjustment it can be brought to sound surprisingly good. The amount of loudness added can be regulated by using the PC volume knob. The newer version, i, was not so well build as the old one, and there was always annoying mechanical noise from the cheap transformer.

If the original version sounded a little warmer, the sound signature however was pretty much the same in both, in my opinion: Pleasantly airy with a relatively full bass, but all-over a tad soft.

It does not change much to add to the capacitor battery, I found. Well may be a tad, and I always -routinely- doubled it. As an experiment at one point I used a ten-fold increase with outboard capacitors , but essentially the amp sounded the same. Another tad of improvement came from using only one channel of each amp, I you understand what I mean.

I have little experience with the pre-amp section. A curious experience was to try modern output transistors with the I used MJ something in TO3 housing. The amp worked percectly well in the technical sense, but it became subjectively extremely dull and sterile sounding, like an average japanese inexpensive amp from the eighties, somewhat.

Unusable for music, I would say. As an experiment I improved the cooling and turned up the q current many times the original level , also put in new, matched driver transistors: Nothing helped! Another experience: All four of the old verson of I have owned were very nice sounding, with the mentioned tad of warmth to the sound.

Two were made in England and two were early Taiwan made must not be confused with cheap Chinese successors.

What strikes me is the superiority of the imaging of ONE of the Taiwanese units, when used as a stereo power amp.

I recently used this "best" unit as a stand-in when repairing my main amp, an original Electrocompaniet 25 watt amplifier, and was again struck by the imaging capability. The lack of muscular power is also striking, compared to the EC, which, on the other hand, has this great -unique among all I have heard- ability to sound powerfull also at low levels.

But how big are in general the variations among individual amps, due perhaps to good or bad matching of components between channels, one may ask. Good luck with the project! An externally hosted image should be here but it no longer works. Please upload images instead of linking to them to prevent this. Re: NAD amp upgrades? Re: Re: NAD amp upgrades?

If you're ad it, you could replace the volume pot. It's cheap and fails after some years. Cheers, Hannes. BB code is On. Smilies are On. Forum Rules. All times are GMT. The time now is AM. Resources saved on this page: MySQL NAD amp upgrades? User Name.

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Quote: Description The CBEE is a descendent of NAD's first low-cost, high-performance integrated amplifier, the , which thrived in the late s and early '80s. Send a private message to lineup. Find More Posts by lineup. At what point is extra capacitance wasted? Send a private message to Piercarlo. Find More Posts by Piercarlo. If, indifferent to distortion, the user "push" power amplifier to continous max power output, then average recharging current of capacitors became high enough to "warm" the main fuse usually of retarded type and drive it to blow hopefully!

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NAD 3020 Integrated Amplifiers

However, Edvardsen requested specific changes to accommodate higher dynamic power voltage and improved low impedance drive higher current to enhance the D 's compatibility with as wide a range of loudspeakers as possible. Although the D V2 includes digital inputs, and a DAC, its Hypex heart remains an analogue Class D design with a single-ended architecture that ensures its frequency response does not vary unpredictably with the undulating impedance of different loudspeakers. This is not something that all Class D amplifiers can claim Not Cancelled!

That Was Then... NAD 3020 review

NAD D V2 is the latest budget-friendly integrated amplifier coming from a brand well known for its good budget offerings. It was my first and I love it of-course, but more than that it was objectively a very good budget amplifier. The first thing that struck me is how small and light this amplifier is. The second thing I noticed and have no intention to cover for it is that the chassis feels more plasticky than I would like to see at this price point. A small remote control on the other hand is not that stylish, it looks like it came straight from the 90s. These can be dimmed too which is something I truly appreciate. But wait, there are a pre-out and sub-out onboard too. Just looking at the connectivity, NAD V2 is clearly aimed at a modern audiophile that will not use many analog inputs but will appreciate digital ones, as well as a phono input for, back to being trendy, turntables. I have to admit I expected to hear the somewhat lean and lifeless sound of an affordable Class D module.

"nad amplifiers" in Classifieds in Ontario

Review Summary Sound "Delivers on the promise of transistors: broad soundstaging, wide dynamic range, and concentrated focus on instrumental detail. It also has character , never losing sight of the fact that the science of engineering must be in service to a spirit of welcoming and engaging musicality. So call it a pendulum swing, or maybe a paradigm shift, but the trend in high-end audio has been downward, lowering prices while maintaining --and improving -- sound quality along the way. Of course, you can still buy five-figure components, but for a company like NAD that specializes in equipment that costs five figures including what comes after the decimal point , the competition at the entry level has grown more fierce.

NAD's overachieving budget audiophile amplifier

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NAD D 3020 V2 review

The C BEE also offers entry-level affordability, and for many there will never be a need for another amplifier. With class-leading specifications for noise, distortion, power, stereo separation and volume control tracking, the C BEE sets new benchmarks for performance, both measured and audible. The sonic result is a relaxed and inviting sound that digs out the subtle details in your favourite recordings and presents them across a panoramic stereo soundstage. Budget-friendly True to our enviable reputation for creating some of the best performing budget amplifiers of all time, the C BEE delivers huge performance without the huge price tag. Enviro Chic Thanks to its innovative technology, standby power consumption is less than 1 watt. The C BEE uses lead-free silver solder and is constructed free of hazardous materials. Dynamic Power Reserves Continuous power is a conservative 40 watts and dynamic power, which is more important for music listening, is remarkably more than watts!

NAD D 3020 V2 – Was Class D a Smart Choice?

User Name Stay logged in? Shawn, You being in Victoria, there is a good chance i sold that when it was new And did it ever give that amp some kick. You can certainly tweak a to be quite a bit better, but it will never be a cost effective project.

Bjorn Erik Edvardsen: RIP (1945-2018)

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Discussion in ' Audio Hardware ' started by raferx , Aug 20, Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. NAD service? Location: Vancouver, Canada. Hi all, I have the chance to grab a mint condition NAD for a great price.

Award - and the V2 lives up to its predecessor's hype. The D was unlike anything else on the market - and it sounded great. And its successor, the D V2, has the latter point in common with it. Essentially, this V2 is a slicker, classier-looking version of the amp.