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NAD C 399 Hybrid Digital DAC Amplifier
NAD's new classic amplifiers. Intelligent. Powerful. Efficient.
 
 
Perfect Power
Trickled down from NAD’s Masters Series, the C 399’s HybridDigital nCore amplifier can deliver 180 Watts per channel continuous power, and 250 Watts per channel instantaneous power. Highly efficient and remarkably powerful, the HybridDigital nCore amplifier can produce musical transients effortlessly. The design is renowned for its wide bandwidth, flat frequency response, clean clipping behaviour with instant recovery, high current capability, and stability into demanding low-impedance speaker loads. Noise and distortion are vanishingly low under all operating conditions. The minute levels of harmonic distortion are dominated by sonically benign second and third harmonics. The Hypex nCore design enables the C 399 to produce neutral, distortion-free sound even at very high listening levels, with exquisite detail, superb portrayal of space, and thrilling dynamics.
Also trickled down from the Masters Series is the ESS Sabre 9028 high-resolution DAC, a design noted for near-zero levels of clock jitter, ultra-low noise and distortion, and wide dynamic range. This premium DAC enables the C 399 to reproduce all your digital sources with amazing musicality, stunning clarity, and precise soundstaging.
 
Features & Details
  • Hybrid Digital nCore Amplifier
  • Continuous Power: 180 Watts per channel into 8/4 ohms
  • Instantaneous Power: 250 Watts per channel
  • Vanishingly low harmonic and intermodulation distortion
  • Dual MDC2 Ports for expanded functionality
  • Optional MDC2 BluOS-D module adds BluOS multi-room streaming and Dirac Live room correction
  • Jitter-free 32-bit/384kHz ESS Sabre DAC
  • Ultra-low-noise MM phono stage with infrasonic filtering circuitry
  • Two optical, two coaxial digital inputs
  • HDMI-eARC input
  • Two pairs of line-level analogue inputs with low-noise buffer amplifiers
  • Speaker A/Speaker B outputs
  • Two-way aptX-HD Bluetooth
  • Dual subwoofer outputs
  • Dedicated headphone amplifier
  • IR remote
  • 12V Trigger in/out
  • IR in/out
  • RS-232 Serial port for control integration with home automation systems
  • Control4, Crestron, RTI, URC, AMX, Savant, Elan certified

NAD C 399 Hybrid Digital DAC Amplifier

C$2,599.00Price
Excluding Sales Tax

  • Line In, Speaker Out (Analog bypass on)

    • Continuous output power into 8 ohms and 4 ohms
    • >180W (ref. 20 Hz-20 kHz at rated THD, both channels driven)
    • THD (20 Hz – 20 kHz)
    • <0.02% (250 mW to 180 W, 8 ohms and 4 ohms)
    • Signal/Noise Ratio
    • >95 dB (A-weighted, 500 mV input, ref. 1 W out in 8 ohms)
    • Clipping power
    • 210W (at 1 kHz 0.1 % THD)
    • IHF dynamic power
    • 8 ohms: 217 W
    • 4 ohms: 400 W
    • 2 ohms: 506.4 W
    • Peak output current
    • >26 A (in 1 ohm, 1 ms)
    • Damping factor
    • >150 (ref. 8 ohms, 20Hz to 6.5kHz)
    • Frequency Response
    • ±0.3 dB (20 Hz – 20 kHz)
    • Channel Separation
    • >90dB (1 kHz)
    • >75dB (10 kHz)
    • Input sensitivity (for 180 W in 8 ohms)
    • Line In: 201 mV
    • Digital In: 10.25% FS

    Preamplifier

    Line Input, Pre Out (Analog bypass on)

    • THD (20Hz-20kHz)
    • <0.002 % at 2 V out
    • Signal/Noise Ratio
    • >106dB (IHF; A-weighted, ref. 500 mV out, unity gain)
    • Channel Separation
    • >100dB (1 kHz); >90 dB (10 kHz)
    • Input Impedance (R and C)
    • 56 kohms + 100 pF
    • Maximum Input Signal
    • >4.6 Vrms (ref. 0.1 % THD)
    • Output Impedance
    • Source Z + 320 ohms
    • Input Sensitivity
    • 65mV (ref. 500 mV out, Volume maximum)
    • Frequency Response
    • ±0.3 dB (20 Hz – 20 kHz)
    • Maximum voltage output – IHF load
    • >>5 V (ref. 0.1 % THD)

    Phono

    Phono Input, Pre Out (Analog bypass on)

    • THD (20Hz-20kHz)
    • <0.01% at 2 V out
    • Signal to Noise Ratio
    • >84dB (200 ohms source; A-weighted, ref. 500 mV out)
    • Input Impedance (R and C)
    • 46 kohms/100 pF
    • Input Sensitivity
    • 1.08mV (ref. 500 mV out, Volume maximum)
    • Frequency Response*
    • ±0.3 dB (20 Hz – 20 kHz)
    • Maximum Input Signal at 1kHz
    • >80 mVrms (ref. 0.1 % THD)

    Headphone

    Line Input, Headphone Out (Analog bypass on)

    • THD (20Hz-20kHz)
    • <0.005% at 1V out
    • Signal/Noise Ratio
    • >107 dB (32 ohms loads; A-WTD, ref. 1V out, unity gain
    • Frequency Response
    • ±0.3 dB (20 Hz – 20 kHz)
    • Channel Separation
    • >62 dB at 1kHz
    • Output Impedance
    • 2.2 Ohms

    General Specifications

    • Supports bit rate/sample rate
    • up to 24 bit/192 kHz
    • Frequency band
    • 2.402G- 2.480G
    • Maximum transmit power (dBm)
    • 7 dBm ± 2 dBm

    Weight & Dimensions

    • Gross dimensions (W x H x D) **
    • 435 x 120 x 390mm
    • (17 1/8 x 4 3/4 x 15 3/8)”
    • Net Weight
    • 11.2kg (24.7lb)
    • Shipping Weight
    • 13.6kg (30lb)
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