thoughts on NAD M3

Listened to the M3 extensively when I was auditioning for a new amp around 12 months ago. It was very impressive driving some PMC speakers (OB 1's, I think) generating a wide soundstage with solid bass and good integration. I ended up preferring the Musical Fidelity A5 by a very slim margin - seemed slightly more neutral and more dynamic than the NAD. Perhaps the extra watts in the MF played their part. But I remained very impressed with the NAD.

I was looking at the same thing. Overall, the feeling I found was mostly positive overall for the M# and whole Master series. As always, extremely negative or "blew it away" kind of comments are generally disregarded by me as BS or anti brand name prejudice. For those of us that have hardly any availabliity to listen to products, researching on line is pretty important. It is still interesting to find an audio product that is highly rated by many, and it is the "worst thing they ever heard" from others. Different maybe , but worst ever ? Somebody has an issue in those cases, and I tend to believe it is the "worst ever guys" !

I have not heard the M3 but was tempted to start a dialog about certain items getting great reviews and soon after that those same items become very plentiful on AG. The M3 is one of those. Seems like if they were that great buyers would keep them for awhile. A few other examples are Acoustic Zen Adagios, Parasound JC-1's. These and the M3 all got rave reviews and are almost always avail on AG. You can definitely get a good deal on the M3 and try for yourself.

Your right with that thought. I think in the case of the M3, with all the rave reviews, and the fact that NAD is a relatively high volume marketer, that you would find a bunch of these on here. It looks like many now are retailers selling them on AGON. On the other hand people on here change amps like underwear, maybe more. Look at lines like McIntosh, there is always tons of stuff for sale, much of it current.

Assuming that, because a certain item is plentiful in the used classifieds, it must not be as good as the press it got, says it is, is flawed logic. As far as the components mentioned by Bizango their positive press helped create a large volume of sales. Whenever a certain product sells much better than another similar item you will find more of them for sale used. Look at all of the used Shunyata power cords for sale here and on other used sites. Does that mean that the Shunyata product is not as good as claimed? Absolutely not, Shunyata sells so many of them that there is more available used. Now, understand I'm not saying that the NAD M3 isn't overrated, I'm just saying that you can't come to that conclusion accurately simply by the fact that there are a lot of them for sale used.