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NAD 5000

Posted by Luminator (A) on January 30, 2017 at 22:59:56

In Reply to: Day off - went nuts set up 4th system. posted by fin1bxn@msn.com on January 30, 2017 at 08:56:00:

Wow, did your dad leave you an NAD 5000 CD player? Whether or not that is an NAD 5000, way back in late 1991, my junior year of college, I ordered one. It stayed at home in San Francisco, which allowed me to take my old Sony CDP-520ESII down to UC Santa Cruz.

I can't believe that was 25 years ago. I remember it as though it were 2.5 years ago. Here are three posts I wrote, back in 2011:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

After we received the new NAD 5000, one of the first CDs we played was Vicious Rumors' then-new album, Welcome To The Ball. A Bay Area band, VR recorded Welcome To The Ball right here at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley.

That NAD 5000 just stayed at home, while my friends and I dispersed to our respective colleges. But once the Spring '92 semester ended, my friends at UC Berkeley and the CSU system returned home to S.F. They waited for those of us on the quarter system, to join them. They knew that I was a audiophile. No dummies, they invited themselves (and their friends) over to my place, to listen to music.

My parents and brother went to Honolulu for the summer, leaving me home alone. Even on weekday afternoons, some friends would come over. The system comprised the NAD 5000; Sony TAE-1000ESD; Muse Model 100; Paradigm 5SE; AudioQuest Lapis, Quartz, Type 4. But it was the modest, gray plastic, $499 NAD 5000, which guests got to touch. Thus, I associate much of that glorious summer of '92 with the NAD 5000.

Geez, we were 18- to 21-years old then. VR's Welcome To The Ball cut across both genders and all ethnicities. Several of us had been to VR concerts. Our favorites from that album were "Abandoned," "Children," and "When Loves Comes Down."

Because some audiophile, perhaps one of you, took my original 1991 Atlantic Records copy of Welcome To The Ball, I now have the Japanese pressing (WPCR-15930), pictured above.

-Lummy The Loch Monster

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