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Technical Information
PowerDrive™
NAD receivers and amplifiers are well known for delivering amazing “real world” dynamic power. NAD’s exclusive PowerDrive technology provides high dynamic power and low impedance drive capability. PowerDrive’s
range. It’s a little like the “kickdown” of a sophisticated automatic
running, with improved efficiency, leading to greater reliability as well.
Full Disclosure Power Ratings
Power sells audio products, so many manufacturers tailor their designs to obtain the best power ratings that can be contrived. In today’s digital world, with uncompressed signals and
NAD’s solution to this conundrum is to optimize our power supplies to drive
full bandwidth (20Hz - 20kHz), and at rated distortion. This is a far cry from the
commonly used FTC minimal requirement using 8 ohm dummy loads, and requiring no more than two channels to be stressed at a time, and those at an easy 1 kHz frequency, with no distortion specified!
Music or movie sound is not a uniform, unchanging signal such as continuous power ratings would suggest. Rather, it is dynamic, occurring in bursts of varying durations and constantly changing amplitudes. Unlike conventional amplifiers, NAD’s “smart”
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NAD Soft Clipping™
Created by NAD engineers who understood that no matter how much real- world power you give the people, someday, somewhere, someone will demand more. It is all too easy to keep setting the volume higher without realizing just how high you have turned it up. Switching in Soft Clipping will greatly reduce
the chance of damage. NAD’s patented selectable Soft Clipping circuit gently transforms the music waveform as the point of distortion (clipping) approaches, resulting in much clearer reproduction and possibly protecting your speakers from damage, especially tweeters.