Speaker companies have been going down the same path with companies like Serhan & Swift and Bowers & Wilkins getting exceptional performance out of small boxes. Brands like NAIM Audio, Auralic, Devialet and Chord have been producing well made, high performance electronics with small footprints for some years now. This is driven by an ever-increasing awareness of interior design, current streaming services reducing the number of necessary components and most importantly by the increasing abilities of companies to squeeze exceptional performance out of smaller sized components. While there is (thankfully) still plenty of life in the likes of Sonus Faber Reference series speakers and Krell Electronics there is also a marked move towards high-performance yet discrete systems. This certainly rings true for NAD’s M10 Streaming Amplifier. As much as we may be drawn to the biggest pair of speakers in the showroom, or the largest, shiniest piece of electronics we, as an industry, recognise that things are changing.
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