NAD C 658

Music streamer | £1499 | View offers whf.cm/C658

You have to feel for whoever is in charge of box-ticking in the product-design chain of a music streamer. The range of desirable features available to a network streamer gets ever wider as more services, codecs and technologies continue to burst their way into the vast and volatile world of streaming.

With the NAD C 658 priced at the more premium end of the market, you’d expect it to tick off in most of them, which it does. A streamer, DAC and preamplifier combination, this NAD is a Swiss Army knife of a component.

Shared platform

The C 658 uses the BluOS streaming platform, which