Hey all

Like the title says, does anyone have opinions on the sound quality and life expectancy of these. Specifically the CD-500 or CD-700II. Comparison to Clarion DRZ9255, Denonford 8250 or Alpine 7909? No one around here sells them anymore that I'm aware of so I can't go listen to them.

Thanks, J

 

SQ

Reliability

And with spotty distribution in Canada... I would avoid them. Too bad cuz they are nice when they work

 

I have the CD400, SQ is awesome, reliability is 95%, have had mine for almost 2 years and no problems with breakdowns.

This unit is a bit picky about reading certain types of disks though, but other than that, love it.

If I was to replace it, it would be the CD700 or an Eclipse CD5000 or 7000.

 

John, i might consider selling my denonford 8250 complete with the sony c-90 remote mod you did for me.... Maybe...

Naks always had a reliabilty issue, but that might not be a issue for you .

 

Although its not any of the ones you have listed, I have a CD-40z for the past three years. It has held up reliably, I like the plain look, and the high pre out voltage.

It is picky about cd-r's and works best with the black memorex cd-r's.

NP

 

good looking units, break more than other good brands, finicky about burned discs, and sound great when working. I would never buy one as reliability is paramount in my mind...what good is performance if it's at the repair shop?

 

They are distributed by Canada's largest. Why spotty distribution?

Also these HU's are the awsome sounding and I have not seen many issues with break downs.

 

Over the last 10 years I think they have had at least 3, if not 4, distributors and there were a number of years with no distributor at all.

Don't get me wrong - I sold (or tried to sell) Nak for a number of years and I really liked their products. No way I would run one though, just to unreliable and finicky. We ran 60%+ failure rates on headunits. That's heavy.

 

Ya I understand what your saying. Things should change now since they have been with this distributor for 2-3 years now and it should continue to grow again. And I know they have no plans of dropping the line. As for the reliablity I know that has been addressed and are becoming more so. So hopefully nothing but good things from here on in.

 

Hey

Thanks for the replies, I used to have a TP1200 back in the day and it was in for repair twice under warranty totalling ~6 months. I was just hoping that things had changed as it did sound fantastic with my ghetto setup. No immediate plans to buy another HU in the next 6 months but I am looking at different models.

I don't usually play burnt discs so that wouldn't be a problem, maybe 1 out of 100 is burnt because the original is too expensive.

Thanks, J