NAD 1700
The NAD 1700 is a preamplifier/tuner from NAD's Monitor Series. NAD sold that line with the tagline "Designed not to a price, but to a standard." The 1700 was positioned as the heart of a component system. Julian Hirsch gave it a strong endorsement in Audio (December 1988, p.159), writing "rarely do we encounter an audio component as thoroughly satisfying as the NAD 1700."
HiFI-Stereo (May 1991, p.65) listed the 1700 at $799 and described it as uniting NAD's top technology in a "legitimately high-value package." The preamp section has a discrete-component phono preamp with a built-in moving-coil pre-preamp stage. It also has 18 dB-per-octave infrasonic filtering and an unusual volume-control circuit, said to preserve dynamic range at all settings. The volume knob is motor-driven through the supplied remote control.
Beyond these details, documentation on the 1700 is thin. The available sources don't record production years, and no service manual or full spec sheet has surfaced in this archive.
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