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try qobuz, tidal and then compare them to spotify. They cannot match in any genre. Period. It's such a pity, that Auralic does not support it. Sent from my iPhone using Computer Audiophile mobile app

Hi, first of all: NAD stopped selling the D7050, at least here in Germany. Reason I heard is: too low volumes sold. I am using the D7050 everyday for more than 1,5 years now with my ELAC FS 207.A (4 Ohm). I have a NAD 516 CD Player connected via optical in and listen to Spotify Premium via the connect feature a lot. Before I had a C720BEE amp, traditional Class AB with a lot more Watts driving the same speakers. The Class D of the D7050 delivers way more sound: more direct, more depth, more everything. The sound is simply amazing. And the comfort of this all-in-one as well. A year ago I thought about a little more bass and added a REL T5 sub, which is connected via their Neutrik Speakon cable to the speaker outputs, not the Sub Out. But in the end, I am very rarely using it, only when I am listening to Classical music or very low volumes. Meaning: The power of the D7050 is sufficient enough for the ELAC floorstanders, even at medium volumes. The NAD can get a little warm though when listening for hours at high volumes. If you plan to plug the KEF LS50 (with their 8 Ohm) to it, I guess it would be a good idea to compare this setting to some Dynaudio Excite X18 or ELAC BS 244.3 for example (4 Ohm). I believe these will give you way more sound, cause they don't require the power a pair of LS50 needs. (Form factor wise, I think the LS50 are a great fit though...) Recently I installed a Qnap 131 for DLNA purposes. I ripped some CDs as ALAC and planned to do that with all my CDs. But when I tried to listen to the music, the trouble began. Not with the D7050 - which connected well and flawless with the NAS. But the Apps at hand to control the music are simply crap. The Qnap Music Player, PlugPlayer, very useless. So I got rid of the NAS and do not miss it at all. But in the end, the possibility is there with the D7050 and the flaws were with the Apps / NAS, not the NAD. I never connected my Computer directly to them, but streamed via AirPlay and controlled the iMac with the Apple Remote App without any problems. I also streamed a lot via AirPlay from my iOS stuff before I got the Spotify account. Result: Thumbs up for this unique amp and hurry, since I have the feeling that NAD is putting the D line to a rest - concentrating on bluesound, maybe.

hi, darko from digitalaudioreview.net writes you should plug the formatted drive in first and put the music files on it afterwards.

The process of adding cover art for every track is as follows: Mark one track of the album, open the Info (cmd i), go to the cover tab, copy the cover (cmd c), close the Info. Mark all tracks of an album, open the Info, go to the cover tab, delete the existing cover, and paste the copied cover (cmd v). Press OK, close the Info and every song has the cover art embedded. No special folder or naming needed.

bluemark, if you rip with iTunes, it does not add album art to every track. Only one cd cover is in some of its database and aliased into the tracks when displayed on native Apple. If you use a NAS, you need to add the original cover into each track manually. (You can of course use the cover iTunes adds on the mac, but need to copy it, delete it and then paste it manually to all tracks.) The Qmusic app is completely useless, as are all Apps I tried for streaming from a NAS to a receiver. No gapless playback, crappy GUIs, no sorting, strange behaviour all the time.