My bad.
While I don't disagree with what I wrote above, I DID change the orientation of the fuses in the NAD, and the "thinness" in the tone changed. It is still not as rich as I've heard the NAD (not euphonic, just, again, how it sounds in Carnegie Hall and The Met), it is distinctly less electronic-sounding. The bass? I'm going to give it time to break in since I changed the orientation just today.
I'm glad I saw this thread (6 years too late to the party!), so I could see others' experience, but I'm also glad I heard the orientation change, which I think will not be that hard to hear. It certainly has made the NAD C325 BEE sound less "dark" than it is as a stock unit. I'm not sure it has made the NAD sound more like live music or that it is, overall, more musical-sounding than with stock fuses, but hey, I certainly can wait a week and comment again...
While I don't disagree with what I wrote above, I DID change the orientation of the fuses in the NAD, and the "thinness" in the tone changed. It is still not as rich as I've heard the NAD (not euphonic, just, again, how it sounds in Carnegie Hall and The Met), it is distinctly less electronic-sounding. The bass? I'm going to give it time to break in since I changed the orientation just today.
I'm glad I saw this thread (6 years too late to the party!), so I could see others' experience, but I'm also glad I heard the orientation change, which I think will not be that hard to hear. It certainly has made the NAD C325 BEE sound less "dark" than it is as a stock unit. I'm not sure it has made the NAD sound more like live music or that it is, overall, more musical-sounding than with stock fuses, but hey, I certainly can wait a week and comment again...