Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I think this device is well suited for those with small to medium spaces who want a good quality, versatile, compact audio at a reasonable cost, without a lot of fuss. It's also a relatively rare, high quality, compact CD player, which is great for us old-timers with CD collections. On the other hand, I don't think this device would satisfy spec-oriented, 1%-er audiophiles searching for the latest, coolest thing.
I hooked mine up to my Klipsch R-14M speakers and tested all the various inputs. Functionality is perfect. Drives the R-14Ms really well, plenty of volume with lots of headroom. Also drives my 250ohm DT880s just fine, again plenty of headroom. Based on the specs, I don't think the headphone amp is a "drive anything" type (like my Magni 2 Uber), but I expect it will drive anything up to the mid sensitivity/mid-impedance range quite competently (e.g., 96db/300ohms). The Bluetooth 3.0, while again not the highest standard, worked just fine in my testing, with no significant quality drop-off in casual listening.
The sound quality is very good, both speaker and headphone. The expected sound of the Klipsches and the Beyers comes through clean. Overall, I think this is a very nice piece of engineering. While it's not going to compete on the spec front, I feel like there was a nicely executed tradeoff away from high specs that would likely be wasted on most users, toward solid real-world performance and versatility.
It will even work even when your grandpa comes over all excited about his new Blink 182 CD ;)
I have not yet tried any other features but for the size and capability, it would be a great compact system for many folks.