You can't go wrong with NAD.
My first amp was the 3020. Best amp I ever had.. lasted me a few good years before I upgraded.
For a small sum of money, it gave the biggest 'bang per buck'..
For a 'smaller' sum, we have DIY..

Yup currently using 3020i to drive a pair of SF concertino domus, still sounds not bad to my ears hehe..

nicholas,
I guess you listen in your bedroom more than in the living room? hence the NAD in the bedroom?

wao, same setup with PcWork
sure you poison by him

This post has been edited by yehlai: Dec 2 2008, 09:02 PM

Ah ha, you are right hehe.. I spent 99% of my time in bedroom hehe.. Even i put 32" LCD tv in bedroom also, so you can imagine the amount of time i spent in my room

Ahaha yeah man even the stereo amp is same.. All thanks to his poison lol..

NAD 3020i is my very first amp (first hand owner). It is not the cheapo later version from China. Quality is completely different. Until now, it still sound strong since day 1, never give a single problem until now. The only problem is I am tired looking at the same thing for two decades. Well... I always wait it to give troubles so I can have reason to get new one... But it never happen... That's what I call quality. I doubt I can buy anything like that for now. It last forever...

The amp is rated at 20 watt per channels and hardly get warm even turn on over night. Maybe due to its extremely low power consumption. And maybe because of its low temperature, it last forever.

For now, many will say I am crazy of using it to power my floorstander KEF Q700 -> http://www.kef.com/html/en/showroom/hi-fi_...Q700/index.html It actually give reasonable good performance on music that focus on vocal. The sound is so clear, a bit on the warm side, but very pleasing if you have the right DAC or CD player. You have to listen to believe.

So far the weakness is its relative small power for my Q700, which I also use for movies (lots of low freq response) most of the time... The sound still okay, but not as siok (bass not as tight and well control) as much more powerful amp like Marantz PM8005.

It is why I am thinking to replace my NAD with PM8005 + Arcam irDAC. Still thinking as the upgrade is not cheap... Also planning to let go my trustly Tannoy E11 as well as relatively new Diamond 10.2. I want to go all floorstand now.

This post has been edited by chanhin: Apr 15 2014, 11:09 PM