NAD T531 DVD-player
AD are well called a hifi producer that it still looks odd to me that home theatre gear is produced by them.
But unlike lots of home theatre gear, the home theatre is approached by NAD from a hifi perspective.
You instantly understand when setting eyes, that this can be an NAD part. It is ended in NAD's conventional gunmetal gray and has just some of controls on the front panel.
The T531 will play CD, DVD, CDR and CDRW. It will play VCD (Video CDs) and SVCDs.
The rear of the review sample s and gets the standard composite video output signals. Supply logistics mean that New Zealand get the variant with component video output signals instead, although before T531s in New Zealand came using an rgb scart output signal. Both optical and coaxial digital output signals are catered for and Sound right and left finish the image.
The zoom functions really are a close-worthless 4x and 16x. The only DVD player having a handy zoom function that I Have come across is the Toshiba SD1300.
Together with the explosive increase in mp3 tracks lately, NAD enthusiasts will be very happy to discover that the T531 has a built in mp3 decoder. I failed to examine the NAD's skill with mp3 encoded cds.
Music first?
Throughout NAD's promotional material you will see references from what they call their "Music First doctrine". With DVD players this means the T531 should even be a great CD player.
Like many more, I Have uncovered when playing CDs that most DVD players fight to rise above mediocrity.
Several of us compared other DVD players and the T531 using the $749 C521 CD player of NAD as a benchmark. Music had dynamics and some body . The T531 could not quite match the standalone CD player of NAD, but performed.
Image quality was likewise outstanding. The NAD T531 offered my budget benchmark version, a clear image quality development on the Toshiba 1300 - and a DVD player that is very capable the Toshiba is also.
It was more easy to see image details using the NAD, especially in shadow regions DVD players fall down. A good example of this was the woods scenes in Gladiator only prior to the conflict.
With the darker regions turning black this scene, using its dark blue colour overtones, presents a difficulty, on many DVD players. (Photoshop users may recognise the same issue when using more low-cost desktop computer scanners).
The NAD enabled the audience to peer to the shadow regions for an abundance of visual detail.
Colours are not as energetic as with a few other DVD players that I Have seen lately, but were by no means.
