Trevor Wilson wrote:



**Back in the 1980s, NAD was manufactured by Fulet Electronic in Taiwan.


** NAD stands for "New Acoustic Dimension" a British brand and the early circuit designs were by a Scandanavian gent( see Wiki).

The early models were full of BC, BD and MJ prefix devices - which was wacky for an obviously Asian made amp.



Whilst performance of the product was decent enough, the mechanical

quality was crap.


** Saw one example of a NAD 3020 that had steel washers installed BTEWEEN the 2NJ3055/MJ2955 output devices and the heatsink !!

Plastic front panel, cheapest possible hardware and electros - yuck.


NAD parted ways with Fulet and went to Japan for most

of their manufacture. Fulet began manufacturing their own brand, Proton,

sometime before the split. Astonishingly, some of their early products

(like the 940 receiver) were identical to the equivalent NAD model (7150

receiver). So much so, that the service manual for the NAD could be used

with the Proton. Same part numbers, PCB designations, etc.


** LOL.

Never knew that before.


..... Phil