NAD/PSB Desktop 2-Channel System First Look

See the complete review for the NAD/PSB Desktop 2-Channel System.

Although it’s always fun and exciting to review the latest piece of high-end audio gear, in the real world most people tend to be far more modest with their discretionary Hi-Fi purchases.

The good news is that there are a lot of choices these days in great sounding audio equipment that won’t bust your budget and that is flexible enough to meet several different needs.

Lenbrook has kindly provided us a selection of approachable NAD and PSB gear to create a high performance yet easy to live with system. The intention is to meet the needs of the budding audiophile, the music-loving urban dweller with limited square footage, or really anyone looking for a simple yet great-sounding system. The components are the NAD D3045 Hybrid Digital Amplifier, the NAD C558 turntable, the NAD VISO HP70 Wireless Bluetooth headphones, the PSB Imagine XB bookshelf speakers and the PSB Subseries 250 powered subwoofer. My 17-year old son Peter Lo Raso, will be evaluating this system as his first real and complete audio system of substance.

Look for a full review to appear on the Secrets website in the near future.

See the complete review for the NAD/PSB Desktop 2-Channel System.

Carlo Lo Raso

A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room. Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft. Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001. In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since. Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.