NAD C368 Hybrid Digital DAC Amplifier Preview

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NAD C368 is a versatile product that can serve as a centerpiece of a stereo music system. It is an advanced integrated amplifier that can function as a preamplifier (with both line-level and phono inputs), a DAC (with both coax and optical inputs) or headphone amplifier, and has the high-resolution Bluetooth streaming capability with aptX support.

The amplifier inside the C368 has Class D topology capable of delivering 80W x 2 continuous power into 8 or 4 ohm loads. It is equipped with a power supply that can deliver 260 W of dynamic power into 2 ohm loads. Moreover, the NAD C368 features modular design with two available slots that can accommodate a variety of upgraˆde modules, such as 4K video-capable HDMI-switching, additional digital inputs, and Hi-Res multi-room wireless system capability. The review unit has the BluOS module upgrade that allows the C368 to access the local area network via wired Ethernet or wi-fi connectivity to stream music to BluOS-enabled music systems or wireless speakers. Initial trial suggests that this NAD sounds good too.

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Yongki Go, Ph.D.

Yongki considers himself as an aerospace engineer by day and an audio/home-theater enthusiast by night/weekend. He earned his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from MIT in 1999 and has pursued a career in academia before changing path to join the aerospace industry. He has been writing for SECRETS since its early years, but was on hiatus during the few years when he was living overseas. He has been actively writing for SECRETS again not long after his return to the US in 2012. Although his field of expertise is in aerospace control systems as exemplified by more than 80 technical articles in various aerospace-related journals and conferences, his passion has always been in hi-fi audio reproduction. It is this continued passion for audio that has kept him as a long-time member of the SECRETS team.