NAD M22 question.

[Oneminde]

Rather than send NAD an email I figured I would give the community a chance.


Its regarding the NC400 module used in the NAD M22 and my question is: Why is the NC400 module "floating" and not incorporated directly with the motherboard as in one unit. Could it be that Hypex is building and delivering the module to NAD or is there some other circuit reasons like keeping the two circuits isolated from one another to suppress noise etc ??

Many thanks

 

[Reactance]

Rather than send NAD an email I figured I would give the community a chance.


Its regarding the NC400 module used in the NAD M22 and my question is: Why is the NC400 module "floating" and not incorporated directly with the motherboard as in one unit. Could it be that Hypex is building and delivering the module to NAD or is there some other circuit reasons like keeping the two circuits isolated from one another to suppress noise etc ??

Many thanks

I think every time this question related to the NAD M22 comes up they cringe remotely.

 

[Oneminde]

I see, so not the first time ... also no clear answer to why ?

 

[Khron]

Pretty sure the modules are indeed OEM'd by Hypex.

For NAD to include them into their own boards, i'm pretty sure they'd need to pay some hefty license fees - that's assuming Hypex would allow that in the first place, at all.

 

[Oneminde]

That was my initial thought, that the answer is Hypex deliver them. I can't image what a license fee would look like

 

[Oneminde]

I actually did a quick search by looking at the NC500 module and its very similar to the OEM module which NAD use, so I think its fairly safe to say that Khron is on spot regarding license and all.

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