Wow, that's very depressing.
I love music most of all, so like music-focused products, but I also love games and movies, and you need surround for those, and musical sounding AVRs are like hens' teeth below the high end.

NAD's actual amplifier sections are so damn good at the price, I mean, really phenomenally powerful, that I was willing to endure a degree of bugginess in the HDMI handling and I really didn't need much beyond a crossover and delay for the speakers. I didn't anticipate just HOW buggy this thing would be.

The replacement, the T757 features their (previously high-end) modular construction (and the press seems to indicate a purist approach with the video), so I may audition the thing to see if it has a stable, responsive S/PDIF section. I would assume that the modular stuff is an in-house job, as it was only featured on their top-deck stuff before.

Failing that I suppose I could resort to Denon or Pioneer, but their cheaper models don't sound particularly good for music. Maybe some used separates one day. Always wanted an old Rotel power amp with the stonking great heat sinks on it.
(Ladyfingers is in your wardrobe,, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 4:33, 1 reply)

There's a simple solution
Get an integrated or pre-power amp that has a bypass AV input (this bypasses the volume control on this input only). Then plug the left and right front channels from the av processor into that. Then you'll have an uncompromised stereo system with surround added on when required. ARCAM and Cyrus (Cyrus needs a three finger salute on power up) have this feature, along with others. Cyrus are good musical sounding products. Not as warm and cuddly as your NAD, but once you're used to it, much more rewarding.

There's a good chance NAD seeded the design with their amplifier circuits. However the devil is in the details.
( jagwap, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 6:22, closed)