NAD C 538 CD Compact Disc Player

Description

NAD has an enviable reputation for creating great sounding
products at very affordable prices and nowhere is this more evident than in
NAD’s CD Players. NAD’s veteran engineers know exactly where to spend just a
little extra money for a better quality part, in order to extract the very best
sound from the Compact Disc. CD Players use mechanical, digital, and analog
technology to produce sound, and all three forms of engineering greatly affect
the end result and require careful design and engineering.

Careful Design and Engineering

NAD has an enviable reputation for creating great sounding
products at very affordable prices and nowhere is this more evident than in
NAD’s CD Players. NAD’s veteran engineers know exactly where to spend just a
little extra money for a better quality part, in order to extract the very best
sound from the Compact Disc. CD Players use mechanical, digital, and analog
technology to produce sound, and all three forms of engineering greatly affect
the end result and require careful design and engineering.

A solid mechanical foundation is paramount in reducing
external vibration and providing precise location of the CD drive mechanism.
This allows smooth operation and a minimum of tracking errors. Heavy gauge
steel and non-resonant plastic moldings are carefully engineered to provide
optimum results. The transport is mounted on reinforced steel rails and over 30
fasteners are used to lock the assembly together and maintain precise
dimensional integrity.

Precise clocking of the digital data stream allows the
Wolfson 24 bit DAC to provide accurate linearity for the PCM data conversion to
analog waveform. Audio OP Amps buffer the output without adding noise or
distortion to the music. Multi-layer PCBs using surface mount components allow
for an enhanced circuit layout with very short signal paths. Powering these
elements is a custom designed active power supply that provides multiple
regulated voltages to the transport, digital circuits, analog circuits, and the
control and display circuits. The result of this careful engineering is a sound
that is at once both detailed and natural, with dramatic dynamic contrasts.

The NAD C 538 includes many desirable features that enhance
listening pleasure. Front panel controls are duplicated on the hand held remote
allowing Play, Pause, Skip, and Scan functions. In addition, many more features
are available from the remote handset, such as RANDOM: Tracks/files are played
at random mode, PROGRAM: Enter or exit program mode, REPEAT: Track, file,
folder or whole disc is repeated, RPT A-B: Playback sequence is repeated. The
dimmable dot matrix display shows tracks, total playing time. Track time, disc
time, and remaining time are all available. The C 538 also can play CD-R/CD-RW
discs allowing you to burn songs from your computer for playback on your CD
Playing system.

Because these songs are encoded in MP3 or WMA format, you
can fit up to 10 hours of music on a single disc which is great for party mixes
and ambient listening. There are also both optical and coaxial digital outputs
that allow connection to an external DAC or digital component (like an AVR) to
provide the most efficient and best sounding system setups.

Although music downloads and streaming continue to grow in
popularity, CDs are still the primary listening source for millions of people
around the world. NAD continues to innovate and improve its CD Players to get
improved performance while keeping prices low. Whether you are creating your
first home system, or upgrading your current CD Player, you should consider
NAD’s 45 year record of excellence, and its commitment to music lovers
everywhere, when selecting a new player.

GENERAL PARAMETERS

• Output
  level

• Analog:
  2.2 ± 0.1 V

• Frequency
  response

• ±0.5
  dB (ref. 0 dB 20 Hz-20 kHz)

• Total
  harmonic distortion

• ≤0.01%
  (ref. 1 kHz, Audio LPF)c

• Signal-to-Noise
  Ratio

• ≥110
  dB (ref. 1 kHz, A-weighted)

• Channel
  balance

• ±0.5
  dB (ref. 0dB 1kHz)

• Channel
  separation

• -4.6
  ±0.8 dB (ref. 0dB 1 kHz, 5 kHz)

• -9.0
  ±1.0 dB (ref. 0dB 1 kHz, 16 kHz)

• Standby
  power

• <0.5W

• Idle
  power

• <7.5W

DIMENSION AND WEIGHT

• Gross
  dimensions (W x H x D)

• 435 x
  70 x 249 mm (Gross)*

• 17
  3/16 x 2 13/16 x 9 13/16 inches

• Net
  Weight

• 3.0 kg

• 6.6
  lbs

• Shipping
  Weight

• 4.3 kg

• 9.5 lbs