NAD Bows 1st Amp With Modular Design Technology, BluOS Module

NAD introduced an amplifier with a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and one with a BluOS-D module, with availability for both expected in time for the holiday season, it emailed Tuesday. The $1,999 C 399 has the company’s HybridDigital nCore amplification, previously available only in the Master Series amps. It’s built around a 32-bit/384-kHz ESS Sabre DAC and is the first NAD amp to incorporate the company’s Modular Design Construction technology, MDC2, which lets users add modules that provide functions such as BluOS hi-res multiroom streaming and Dirac Live room correction. The MDC2 BluOS-D module is $549.