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RE: Nord One Up NC500 DM impressions

Posted by watts (A) on September 17, 2017 at 09:08:43

In Reply to: RE: Nord One Up NC500 DM impressions posted by Satie on September 16, 2017 at 21:35:32:

It seems amazing to me that electronics need 500+ hours to stop changing their sound. There are many who still believe break in doesn't exist at all. If they get even better from here I will report it. If they do get better in the midrange I will be ecstatic. Colin (Nord founder) could already charge more for these hypex based amps than he does; he already raised the prices once.

Perhaps It would be useful to some readers here who are not as familiar with these amps to emphasize that the difference between these hypex based amps and others is Colin's custom class A input buffer, whereby one can use different op amps simply by pulling one off and inserting another one on the top of the board. it takes less than 2 minutes! I have the Sonic Imagery op amps in the unit and next will try the Sparkos op amps; which are reported to be a little warmer and rounder; maybe I will prefer them and sacrifice a little sparkle and air. It is an awesome option though; kind of like us with the electronic crossover's with the ability to adjust frequencies near the crossover points to fatten some frequencies up or lean them out. Or just the option to use one amp on the bass and another amp on the mids/ribbons. Let me tell you this is one killer amp for the bass panels! They are reported to be 'up to' 700 watts into 4 ohms, but some published test of the same NC500 circuit with same SMPS1200 power supply has reported about 450 watts continuous into 4 ohms with 0.1% distortion. Let's just say I conservatively have 1800 watts into the 3.6's :)

I am using Transparent plus speaker cables and Audio Sensibility Statement XLR's and Testament power cables. Audio Sensibility is another factory direct company like Nord where their equipment would retail for twice the asking price if it were sold by the dealer; highly recommended cables. My exaSound DAC was also purchased factory direct. No dealer; no middleman taking $1000 of my money for selling me a product I know I want. (All the Transparent cables were purchased second hand)

I recently read the review from Chris founder of Computer Audiophile about the Microrendu and he exclaimed that if he had to pick one album that was the best of all time, from any genre, it would be Miles Davis: Kind of Blue. A guy that has 7500 albums; 5 Terabytes of data on his NAS.

Edits: 09/17/17 09/17/17

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