I decided to have a look at the insides of my NAD C510 DAC because, well, why not? Please SUBSCRIBE to my channel Please consider becoming a Patreon: patreon.com/audionautica Check out my watchmaking channel @watchout9213
Got the same DAC. Very good in my opinion! If you give it the cabling and amplification....it will shine. Be sure to upgrade the fuse!! Maybe some warm Synergetic Research will be a nice match.
We have an all matching Audiolab 8200 series system, i.e CD, preamp and 4 power amps. The most soul destroying design insanity about it is that the CD has XLR out, the power amps have XLR - but the pre amp does NOT! Who designed that?! So even 30 years in to the hobby, still no luck with balanced connections :) Well I now have a different system where the pre has XLR out and the amps have it, too, but not my CD player....
You probably can get a similar or better quality Chinese branded DAC at a fraction of the price. At the price you paid I would expect a DAC to be at least made in some eastern Europen countries.
I am interested in this as a hdmi switch for my projector. How does it sound? I have an Arcam SR250 but I only use 1 or 2 hdmi inputs. This is one of the only dacs that does hdmi out to a screen. I may also pass it through a pre amp to do analogue inputs too..
