Tibor August 31, 2009 19:56
My NAD 515BEE player(has 1 year) after 2 hours of use become very noisy spinning the cd disc, I think it get tired, this is a player with awful quality.There are washing machine which working with less noise.My 15 years old Aiwa budget cd player works perfect silently. Stay away from this player, this is a player for single(1 year) use
SmilerJerg August 28, 2009 10:26
This is a nice looking CD player. I just checked out NAD's website, and they've acknowledged the problem:
"A small number of NAD C515BEE were produced with a CD tray position switch that proved to be unreliable. All units in the serial number range were reworked with new switches. Unfortunately some units were sold before we realized the situation. Any customer experiencing problems will have their unit repaired free of charge. We apologize to anyone that has experienced this difficulty with their C515BEE." http://is.gd/2DEIA
Tibor November 29, 2008 18:31
Good sound, but poor reliability, the CD tray stopped working after 1-2 hours in a new player. Is a little noisy spinning the disc. The Marantz and Denon players have more reliable cd tray mechanism.
mark banks November 13, 2008 16:55
superb superb superb the best sub 500 pound player on the planet.
sonofulster November 9, 2008 11:42
Re my original review, turns out the problem was caused by my placing my amplifier on top of the CD player. The weight of the amp was interfering with the CD tray mechanism, apparently. With the CD player on top, it works fine.
sonofulster November 7, 2008 14:02
I bought this CD player back in April. I'd had it a day before the CD tray stopped working. Took it back and got a new one (a demo - at least that way I could be sure it worked).
A few weeks ago, the CD tray on the replacement stopped working. Took it back again. The salesperson told me they'd "had a bad batch" of that model and gave me a new one.
Guess what? The CD tray on the replacement replacement went within days.
So I'm not impressed. Have NAD compromised build quality to be able to produce such a great sound at low cost?
welshboy July 25, 2008 11:17
I have to say I was a little concerned when putting my new system together to be spending so little on a CD player.
I need not have worried. It's everything your reviewer says of it.
Perhaps becasue of my music choices I've not found the tentative hesitation mentioned. It seems to handle the mixture of Rock, Jazz and Classical that was ask of it with ease.
It's mated to a NAD C325BEE driving a pair of KEF IQ5SE speakers and sounds great.
The Azur 340C's energetic delivery is one of its strengths, though it can go OTT at times, losing some detail in the process