Article: Review | NAD M10 BluOS Streaming Amplifier

[Mike Rubin]

I looked into this product but ultimately decided to keep my existing integrated and upgrade my microRendu to a Signature Rendu SE.  While thinking about it, I asked the following question of a NAD dealer:

 

04/28/19 Q: This product invites lots of questions but the downloadable manual answers few. So, I am asking you. (1) The specs say this has DSD support but there is no indication of whether it plays natively or by DoP. There also is no indication whether DSD is limited to 1x or whether DSD128 and DSD256 also are playable, either in native resolution or with downsampling and whether this downsamples 24/352 PCM or just goes silent with it. How does this process such files? (2) It appears there is no handheld remote. Is this the case? If so, is Alexa the only means of selecting inputs or can the mobile apps do that, too? This device doesn't appear in the Logitech Harmony compatability database; is there no IR control capability at all? (3) I don't use a streaming service as my primary source. Instead, I stream from a NAS to DLNA players. Does this have DLNA capability? 04/29/19 A: Hi Mike: We reached out to NAD's CTO, Greg Stidsen to get a deeper dive into your queries. He replied: "DSD support is limited. It requires reformatting as DOP and this is a tool that is only available in the desktop app. It converts all resolutions to 24/192 and saves them as a new file on your NAS." "You can access all inputs from the various app formats we support (iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows, Control4, RTI, Crestron, etc.)" "There is an IR learning function so you can use any codes you want. It is very easy to set up (same as Bluesound)." "We do not support UPnP (too many limitations) but use SMBA to access all your NAS music files. Once sharing is configured all files can be accessed from any devices storing music files. We also support folders if you want to separate different types of libraries." Hope this helps,

I have a relatively large number of sacd’s that I now store as DSD files and I wanted to continue to be able to use my DLNA software, so these limitations were too much for me to take in a device in this price range.