Many of you are wondering about the 25-watt power rating and how it sounds like more. Remember that #/watts don't define a current. #/amps, distortion, and impedance are more important when considering high-end equipment. Just look at the amps costing 1000's of $; a lot of the stuff is like 20 watts a channel! Since I haven't listened to this receiver yet - I just wanted to address this question - please disregard the star rating.

Great sound and very good FM tuner.

Power -- but the 25 amps is very underated

This is a very good value for those looking for a mid to high-end receiver and don't want to spend thousands. NAD conservatively rates their equipment and the 25WPC does a very good job of driving my PSB Stratus Mini's. I find the amplifier to be very quiet -- have had no noise problems of any kind, either through the phone jack or the speaker outputs. Very refined, high quality receiver with good remote control. Note that the receiver has preamp output, which is very handy if you step up to a power amplifier, which I eventually did.

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Great receiver. I love it. Very efficient. My guess is that the output rating is way under what it really delivers. I've never put it even near half volume it cranks so well. And I'm a drummer! I compared it with several units in a good store and could hear the difference clearly.
The only downside is that I don't really love the way the tuner controls work. There are 'modes' for tuning: preset, scan, fine tune. The same tuning buttons depend on the mode setting to determine how it will move from channel to channel. Its just a bit awkward from the unit itself but works much better from the remote where it is actually an advantage. I also don't like that it seems that the radio circuit is allways on. Even when I'm listening to a CD, the display shows the station that I was last tuned to and the signal strength light flashes. I have never detected any trace of bleed through though.

I'd also like it if the unit had a phono preamp stage. Overall I absolutely love the sound of this NAD.

Great drive and sound. Great depth in tone and sound

FM/.Am tuner not the greatest, but what do you expect for the money

This was a great purchase! I was originally looking at one of the AV receivers, but they were a bit too pricey. When I listened to this product, it blew me away and I couldn't beleive that it is only 25 Watts! Sounds more like 70Watts. This is my first product in home audio, outside a 12 year old boom box, so perhaps I am easily impressed, but I listened to a lot of more expensive recievers, all be it mostly AV receivers, but none had the earthly rich tones. Most other receivers sounded a bit brassy, so it was an easy choice. I am listening to it through Monito Audio Monitor 4s. Not a bad set up I have to say.

If you are on a budget, as most of us are, and don't need a lot of bells and whistles, the 712 is the one to look at first and last. And, if you are in Chicago, check Saturday Audio Exchange. They don't work on commission, and are more helpful than anyone else in the city.

Great sound, can play loudly without sounding strained.

Weird interface choices, bad quality.

I've had a NAD 712 for a couple of years now. The sound quality is great and I just recently found out that it only has 25 W output power (while shopping around for an AV receiver). Some bad points : 1) a low hiss when the volume is up but no music is playing, 2) one channel goes away when I turn the volume down really low, 3) the tuner controls are a bit flaky (for instance, pressing up/down does not go from preset 5 to 6 but rather from 105.6 to 105.65 by default). I also think that I got something of a lemon; I've had it in for repairs twice now due to a bad power supply connector.

Unbelievable ability to drive big speakers

display led keeps burning uot

i have a set of tannoy saturn s6's, it drives these speakers incredibly well considering its only 25W per channel. It creates great sound; however, i find that the highs are not a pronounced as they were when i was using smaller speakers. That could be attributable to the fact that ive gained an extra woofer. Im looking forward to purchasing an NAD 216 THX or a 218 THX and seeing the improvement.

power, low noise, reliable

butt ugly

I have had the NAD for over a year now and consider it one of my better purchases. NAD has a reputation for spending money and engineering work where it pays off in the audio chain, not the pretty looks stage.

This is another example of this paradigm at work.

I have been thinking about upgrading from the NAD for six months now, but I cannot fault it for any particular reason. It is only for a stigmata reason that I want to upgrade. NAD is labelled as "mid-fi" by the elitists out there.

When I think of spending 5 times what I paid for the NAD to get something that will at best be it's equal I postpone my decision again and again.

I have yet to find fault with the NADs performance. I doubt anyone could.