NAD C338
The NAD C338 adds big sound to your favourite music sources and brings incredible flexibility to any stereo system. With Spotify Connect®, Bluetooth®, and the first-ever hi-fi amplifier to have built-in Chromecast®, the NAD C 338 allows you to stream and cast music directly from any music streaming app, letting you enjoy your music wirelessly. Add a turntable using the phono input and experience the warmth of vinyl collections with the room-filling sound of NAD’s HybridDigital™ amp technology. Power, volume, source selection, and device settings are all controlled using the intuitive interface of the NAD Remote App for iOS and Android.
HybridDigital™ Amp Technology
The search for a high-performance Class D solution led NAD to HybridDigital™, an innovative amplifier technology that uses a variable modulation frequency to bring out the life-like qualities of music, while reducing distortion under every operating condition. This highly optimized design gives phenomenal performance to the NAD C338 amplifier, both measured and subjective.
Efficient Class D Power
NAD has worked tirelessly to create the best performing Class D amplifiers that are energy efficient and produce beautiful sound—not heat—regardless of basic design principles. Using advanced measurements and data, NAD developed the NAD C338’s highly efficient power supply with a customised Hypex® UCD output stage to pump out 160 watts continuously and over 300 watts instantaneously to meet the demands of the most dynamic music. This new design is very linear over a wide bandwidth and provides consistent, noise-free performance for the amplifying stages with near perfect regulation of voltage.
Always Ready for Streaming
The NAD C338 has Chromecast built-in so you can cast music, tunes, podcasts, and playlists from your favourite apps on your phone, tablet or laptop to your stereo system. Spotify Connect® lets you discover millions of songs and stream them directly to your C 338 using the Spotify® app for a rich, wireless music experience. With the added flexibility of Bluetooth®, your music streaming possibilities are truly limitless with the C 338.
Flexible Connectivity
With a wide array of connections, including a separate headphone amplifier that can drive high-impedance studio monitor headphones, the C 338 is ready for any type of listening. Line inputs can accommodate all kinds of analogue source components, offering ideal input impedance with linear ultra-low noise buffer amplifiers to preserve the musicality of recordings. Also connect a subwoofer with low impedance line outputs and extend the versatility of this budget-friendly, do-it-all amplifier.
Key Features
- 50W x 2 Continuous Power into 8 or 4 Ohms
- 90W / 150W / 200W IHF Dynamic Power into 8 / 4 / 2 Ohms
- First hi-fi amplifier to feature Chromecast built-in
- Integrated Bluetooth® for added music streaming flexibility
- Built-in Phono Preamp for Turntables
- Stereo Line, Optical Digital and Coax Digital inputs
- NAD Remote App support for tablet and smartphone
- Dedicated Headphone Amplifier
- Subwoofer Output
Preamplifier
Line In, Subwoofer Out
- THD (20Hz-20kHz)
- <0.005% at 2V out
- Signal/Noise Ratio
- >106dB (IHF; A-weighted, 500mV out, unity gain)
- Input Impedance (R and C)
- 56 kilohm + 100pF
- Maximum Input Signal
- >4.5Vrms (ref. 0.1% THD)
- Output Impedance
- Source Z + 200 Ohm
- Input Sensitivity
- 50mV (100Hz ref. 500mV out, Volume maximum
- Maximum voltage output – IHF load
- >4.5V (ref. 0.1% THD)
Line In, Headphone Out
- THD (20Hz-20kHz)
- <0.005% at 1V out
- Signal/Noise Ratio
- >105dB (IHF; A-weighted, 32 Ohm loads, ref. 2V out, unity gain)
- Frequency Response
- ±0.3dB (20Hz-20kHz)
- Channel Separation
- >56dB at 1kHz
- Output Impedance
- 0.5 Ohm
General Specifications
Line In, Speaker Out
- Continuous Output Power into 4 Ohms and 8 Ohms (Stereo)
- >50W (at rated THD, 20-20kHz, both channels driven)
- IHF Dynamic Power
- 8 Ohm 80W
4 Ohm 150W
2 Ohm 210W - THD (20Hz-20kHz)
- <0.03% (250mW to 50W, 8 Ohm and 4 Ohm
- Signal/Noise Ratio
- >98dB (A-weighted, 500mV input ref. 1W out in 8 Ohm)
- Clipping power
- >60W (at 1kHz 0.1% THD)
- Peak output current
- >18A (in 1 Ohm, 1 ms)
- Damping Factor
- >300 (ref. 8 Ohm, 20Hz to 6.5kHz)
- Frequency Response
- ±0.3 dB (20Hz-20kHz)
- Channel Separation
- 1kHz >75dB
10kHz >65dB - Input Sensitivity (For 50W in 8 Ohm)
- Line In: 380mV, Digital In: 18% FS
- Sample Rate
- Up to 24 bit/192kHz
Weight & Dimensions
- Gross Dimensions (W x H x D)*
- 435 x 70 x 285mm (17 1/8 x 2 13/16 x 11 1/4)”
- Net Weight
- 4.85kg (10.7lb)
- Shipping Weight
- 5.85kg (12.9lb)