I’ve never owned the Ncore 400’s but always wanted to try them. When I finally went to give them a try the Nilai500 had been released as their replacement.
This is the first time I’ve ever used class D for my stereo mains amplification.
I have Crowns for subwoofer duty, and I’ve tried using them for powering the left and right mains but they sounded just awful to me.
But not the Nilai. Very clean and powerful without the horrible edge (resulting in fatigue) that the Crowns presented.
The balanced line option (xlr) is also nice. Running fully balanced from start to finish is interesting… it really does seem to lower the noise floor in the room, being able to put your ear right up against 100db sensitivity horn loudspeakers and hear absolutely no hiss, hum or buzz of any kind is pretty remarkable in my opinion. I certainly could not do that with my unbalanced lines
so far so good!