NAD Exhibits New T761 And T751 Surround Sound A/V Receivers

11-Jan-01

As the era of discrete surround sound music recordings begins to unfold, NAD stands well-positioned to take full advantage of these new formats with its ""music first"" approach to the surround sound receiver. Refusing to lower performance standards for its A/V product offerings, NAD is one of the few manufacturers to rate power in full compliance with FTC regulations - continuous power is rated into both 8-ohm and 4-ohm loads, at full 20Hz to 20kHz bandwidth and at rated distortion with all channels driven simultaneously. But as always with NAD, the numbers don't begin to tell the whole story. The warm, detailed and involving musical sound is the result of nearly 30 years of experience in creating some of the industry's most highly reviewed hi-fi classics.The new T761 Surround Sound A/V Receiver is the worthy successor to NAD's most popular A/V receiver, the T760. With more power, better connectivity options and enhanced convenience features, the T761 offers even better value than before. The T751 Surround Sound A/V Receiver replaces the award-winning T750, and like the T761 offers significant performance and connectivity upgrades over its predecessor.The T761 and T751 A/V receivers use integral Dolby Digital/DTS decoders and Crystal Sigma-Delta DSP processors with 96kHz/24-bit resolution, furthering NAD's reputation in the world of high resolution audio and home theatre. Equipped with discrete power output stages, the T761 is rated to deliver 80 watts continuously into all five channels simultaneously at no more than 0.08% THD. The T751 delivers 60 watts continuously into all five channels simultaneously at the same level of THD. Both receivers employ Impedance Sensing Circuitry (ISC) designed by Bjorn Erik Edvardsen. ISC automatically recognizes the impedance characteristics of a connected loudspeaker and adjusts the amp's power supply settings to best cope with that load. As a result, ISC topology lets both the T751 and the more powerful T761 deliver maximum performance under virtually any circumstance, regardless of the speakers connected. The T751 and T761 have extraordinary dynamic capability - each can produce up to 200 watts into 2-ohm loads with at least 40 amperes of peak current output.Among other features, the T761 and T751 have separate 5.1-channel inputs for an external decoder, pre-outs for all 5.1 channels, five video inputs and two video outputs (equipped with S-Video and composite connectors), and two audio inputs. The T761 has five digital inputs - two Toslink optical and three coaxial RCA - and one coaxial digital output as well. The T751 has three digital inputs - two coaxial RCA and one optical Toslink. Both receivers feature EARS (the natural-sounding Enhanced Ambience Recovery System), switchable Soft Clipping, an RDS tuner with 30 station presets, remote controls (the T761's has a learning function) and, on the T761, 12-volt input and output triggers for remote on/off switching of external power amplifiers or other ancillary components.The MSRP for the T761 is $999, and for the T751 is $749.