NAD T 787 Pro Reviews

NAD recognizes it can’t effectively compete in the current “race to the price and sound bottom” that most A/V manufacturers seem intent on pursuing. With the T 787, NAD has taken a principled stand for superior sound quality over gadgetry and design elegance over buttons, bells, and whistles. While the company’s logic looks self-evident to performance enthusiasts, at a time when peripheral gadgetry unrelated to a product’s core mission appears to take precedence everywhere (see most current touchscreen-happy car commercials), NAD’s stand is not without risk. You can buy far less expensive AVRs packed with far more bullet-pointed features and adorned with more control operability. Other than its industrial-design elegance, what NAD offers here can’t be seen but must be heard—something that in today’s retail environment is becoming increasingly more difficult to do. However, if you do get the opportunity to hear the T 787 in a proper setting, its superb sonics should be immediately obvious. And its future-proof modular design converts a product usually on its way to obsolescence upon purchase into a long-term investment. Combine the T 787’s superior sonics with its ease of use, and the $4,000 price tag begins to make as much sense as does music played through it. Overall, the NAD T 787 is the best-sounding A/V receiver I’ve yet heard.