Nad C 375 BEE Owners Manual
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Features The C 375BEE is fully remote controlled and comes supplied with the NAD SR 8 system remote control. The remote control features an ergonomic form, with large buttons that are differentiated by shape and position, to make operation intuitive and enjoyable. The SR 8 will also operate many other NAD products such as CD players, tuners, etc. Flexibility is another NAD strong point. The C 375BEE has 7 line inputs (including 2 tape in/outputs with dubbing facility) and the pre-ampli er section can be separated from the power ampli er for easy upgrades or adding ancillary equipment. Thus the C 375BEE can be expanded to meet future system needs. The C 375BEE sports pre-amp outputs: Many systems bene t from the use of multiple power ampli ers for Bi-Amping (using separate power ampli ers to drive the bass and treble section of a loudspeaker). The rst Preamp Out includes a level trim control to allow matching of amps or speakers with different sensitivities. Additionally there is a second Preamp Out to connect to powered subwoofer, an increasingly popular option. Another option is to bridge the C 375BEE and add the matching C 275BEE (identical except without the preamp and source switching) for one of the most powerful home audio systems youll ever encounter. Power goes from 150W x 2 to over 400W x 2! For remote on/off switching of ancillary components in a system, such as power ampli ers or active speakers, the C 375BEE is equipped with a 12V-trigger system. When switching the ampli er on, the 12V- trigger output is also activated which in turn can activate a 12V-trigger input switching on the remote devices. Besides the 12V-trigger, the C 375BEE also has rear panel IR in and out. It is fashionable to omit tone controls nowadays: However, provided that the tone controls are properly designed, they can be really useful tools in making improvements to the overall sound. The C 375BEE tone controls only work at the frequency extremes leaving the critical mid-band essentially unaltered. The tone control circuits can be completely bypassedusing the tone defeat switch. The C 375BEE also incorporates NADs acclaimed switchable Soft Clipping circuit, which signi cantly reduces the risk of damage to loudspeakers due to prolonged high power operation. Design: PowerDrive TM The C 375BEE also bene ts from NADs proprietary PowerDrive TM circuit topology, now well established and used throughout the NAD product range. The PowerDrive topology allows the C 375BEE to deliver maximum performance under virtually any circumstance, independent of the loudspeakers it is driving. The circuitry automatically senses the impedance characteristics of the loudspeaker and will then adjust its power supply settings to best cope with that speci c load. PowerDrive topology is a practical approach to enable an ampli er to easily deal with musical dynamics and dif cult speaker loads. Thus we have the highly desirable characteristics of high dynamic power and low impedance drive capability in one affordable package. Getting high dynamic power from the power supply to your loudspeaker requires a fast wideband ampli er stage rugged enough to pass and control high peak currents without premature protection intervening. The safe operating limit for the C 375BEE has 4 times the capacity of the typical ampli er in this price range by using 4 pairs of 220W output transistors per channel. The C 375BEE has the lowest levels of distortion and noise available in its price class and is easily capable of embarrassing far more expensive products. To prove it NAD uses Full Disclosure Power (FDP), the most demanding criteria for performance measurement. FDP speci es distortion under the most extreme conditions of low impedance loads and frequency extremes rather than the simple and easy 1kHz @ 8 Ohms test quoted by many of our competitors. We use this stricter performance criteria because it more closely matches the demands of real music and real loudspeakers. Maintaining speci ed distortion at 4 Ohms and at 20Hz and 20kHz is several orders of magnitude more dif cult to achieve than the simple 8 Ohms and 1kHz test. NAD also takes a stand against the meaningless brochure power touted by many of our competitors by offering Full Disclosure power specs. We specify minimum continuous power, across the entire audible range of frequencies, at rated distortion, for both 8 and 4 Ohms with all channels driven simultaneously . Perhaps even more importantly, we also specify Dynamic Power at 8, 4, and even 2 Ohms, which better describes the way the ampli er will perform in the real world, with musical signals and reactive loudspeaker loads. Less Distortion = More Music Noise and distortion mask the ne details of a musical recording robbing musical texture and dimension and replacing them with non-musical artifacts. NAD has spent the last 35 years perfecting our designs to have the lowest distortion and highest power in its price class. This cannot be overstated! Our competitors often rate distortion at only 80% of rated power, and even then cant match our very conservative spec of 0.008% at any frequency within the range of human hearing. Our noise spec is often 10dB (100 times!) less than that of competing ampli ers. This is far from a trivial difference as ne detail and nuance (micro dynamics) are often obscured by noise in lesser ampli ers, robbing a performance of that illusive sense of realism. It is that exciting feeling of being there at the live performance. But even the most carefully reported specs cannot fully describe the sonic performance of an ampli er. Only your own ears can nally judge our achievement. We urge you to listen and compare NAD to other products in its price range, and even higher. We dont think youll nd anything that comes close to offering the C 375BEEs overall musical satisfaction, well-rounded performance, and stellar value for money. > DETAILS
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Shown with optional PP375 phono module C 375BEE Integrated Amplifier > REAR LINE DRAWING