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Eclipse 8445 vs Nak CD500
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<blockquote data-quote="3.5Max6spd" data-source="post: 4624020" data-attributes="member: 555373"><p>That can only be ultimately decided by what you do with it. The Eclipse allows you far and beyond more control of your system.</p><p></p><p>The cd500 is a fine deck and plays mp3's, but its no CD700 where its such a killer player on its own that you can overlook usable features on the Eclipse as far as EQ, active xovers and t/a...as well as a nice, strong pre outs.</p><p></p><p>Naks are just generally poor as far as reliability goes, and having them serviced/warrantied is a joke here, not sure in your parts. The 8443 can be quirky as far as the knobs go, and its a discontinued deck. Eclipse's are also good for some noise floor 'hiss' in those models, on low-low volume levels you can hear it out of the tweets, not so much at higher volumes. But if you are listening to a recording with some backround hiss or a track that doesnt have much going but vocals, once you know its there it can annoy you....specially in a quiet cabin.</p><p></p><p>Both ran dead flat...is hard to say. Never a/b'd them in a close enough scenario to make such judgement. Albeit I found both decks to lay it on nice as pile on the volume in various systems I've used'm in and auditioned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="3.5Max6spd, post: 4624020, member: 555373"] That can only be ultimately decided by what you do with it. The Eclipse allows you far and beyond more control of your system. The cd500 is a fine deck and plays mp3's, but its no CD700 where its such a killer player on its own that you can overlook usable features on the Eclipse as far as EQ, active xovers and t/a...as well as a nice, strong pre outs. Naks are just generally poor as far as reliability goes, and having them serviced/warrantied is a joke here, not sure in your parts. The 8443 can be quirky as far as the knobs go, and its a discontinued deck. Eclipse's are also good for some noise floor 'hiss' in those models, on low-low volume levels you can hear it out of the tweets, not so much at higher volumes. But if you are listening to a recording with some backround hiss or a track that doesnt have much going but vocals, once you know its there it can annoy you....specially in a quiet cabin. Both ran dead flat...is hard to say. Never a/b'd them in a close enough scenario to make such judgement. Albeit I found both decks to lay it on nice as pile on the volume in various systems I've used'm in and auditioned. [/QUOTE]
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