Hi everybody,
It's been quite a road, but I'm happy to join your ranks as proud Rotel owners. About two years ago I purchased an NAD T761 from a local HiFi store. It was my first attempt at getting into the whole home theater thing. It was great. Classic gray looks with that classic NAD neutral sound.
Too good to be true. About a year later, the front right and rear right channels died out. Took it back to the shop for repairs, ended up with an Arcam AVR100 as a loaner. That was a pretty nice piece of equipment and made the 3 month wait (for repairs to be complete) much more bearable. Finally got the NAD back and I was happy as a clam. The Arcam unit probably sounded a little better, but it was much less flexible as far as inputs go.
About 8 months later, shoddy NAD manufacturing strikes again and the subwoofer preamp-out goes bad, so back it goes to the shop. Ended up with a Marantz 4300 this time for a loaner. Blech. The turn-around is much better this time around, only have to live with the Marantz for two weeks. Got the NAD back, and warily put it back in service.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, and guess what? Front left channel dies. Back to the shop, and they're pretty understanding. They give me back my $999 towards the purchase of something new, I auditioned the RSX-1055 and here I am.
Kudos to Bill Chrisman at AudioFX for the top-notch customer service. If you're in the Sacramento, CA area, definitely look them up.
I've had the 1055 for less than two weeks now, and I haven't been home much, so I know it hasn't broken in yet, but I am loving it. Great-looking, nice-sounding, and oh soooo flexible...
I've been a long-time fan of NAD (I have an old 304 integrated amp and 502 CD player that I still use in my bedroom setup), but I've seen some others here even have been having problems with their a/v receivers as well so I think their QA has gone way down. Now hopefully this will be the start of a long-term relationship with Rotel.
My System:
Rotel RSX-1055
NHT SuperTwo x2 (front)
NHT SuperOne (center)
NHT SuperOne x2 (rear)
B&W ASW 1000 sub
Transparent Speaker Cable & Interconnects
Denon DCM360 5-disc HDCD changer (oops, don't need that anymore)
Old Sansui SR-222 w/ Grado Green cart + Sumiko Pro-Ject phono preamp
Apex AD-600A (hacked)
Toshiba 32" TV (need to upgrade to a 61" Samsung DLP RPTV!)
It's been quite a road, but I'm happy to join your ranks as proud Rotel owners. About two years ago I purchased an NAD T761 from a local HiFi store. It was my first attempt at getting into the whole home theater thing. It was great. Classic gray looks with that classic NAD neutral sound.
Too good to be true. About a year later, the front right and rear right channels died out. Took it back to the shop for repairs, ended up with an Arcam AVR100 as a loaner. That was a pretty nice piece of equipment and made the 3 month wait (for repairs to be complete) much more bearable. Finally got the NAD back and I was happy as a clam. The Arcam unit probably sounded a little better, but it was much less flexible as far as inputs go.
About 8 months later, shoddy NAD manufacturing strikes again and the subwoofer preamp-out goes bad, so back it goes to the shop. Ended up with a Marantz 4300 this time for a loaner. Blech. The turn-around is much better this time around, only have to live with the Marantz for two weeks. Got the NAD back, and warily put it back in service.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, and guess what? Front left channel dies. Back to the shop, and they're pretty understanding. They give me back my $999 towards the purchase of something new, I auditioned the RSX-1055 and here I am.
Kudos to Bill Chrisman at AudioFX for the top-notch customer service. If you're in the Sacramento, CA area, definitely look them up.I've had the 1055 for less than two weeks now, and I haven't been home much, so I know it hasn't broken in yet, but I am loving it. Great-looking, nice-sounding, and oh soooo flexible...
I've been a long-time fan of NAD (I have an old 304 integrated amp and 502 CD player that I still use in my bedroom setup), but I've seen some others here even have been having problems with their a/v receivers as well so I think their QA has gone way down. Now hopefully this will be the start of a long-term relationship with Rotel.
My System:
Rotel RSX-1055
NHT SuperTwo x2 (front)
NHT SuperOne (center)
NHT SuperOne x2 (rear)
B&W ASW 1000 sub
Transparent Speaker Cable & Interconnects
Denon DCM360 5-disc HDCD changer (oops, don't need that anymore)
Old Sansui SR-222 w/ Grado Green cart + Sumiko Pro-Ject phono preamp
Apex AD-600A (hacked)
Toshiba 32" TV (need to upgrade to a 61" Samsung DLP RPTV!)
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