NAD M10 V3

The NAD M10 V3 is the Masters series streaming amplifier, and it is the model that made this category respectable. A small, dense block of a thing with a full-width colour touchscreen on the front, it contains amplifier, DAC, streamer and room correction.

Dirac Live room correction is included, which is unusual on a stereo amplifier and arguably does more for the sound in a real room than any component upgrade at the same money.

What Apple Home actually does with it

This is an AirPlay 2 device rather than a HomeKit accessory.

• It appears in the Home app as a speaker you can play to, and as an AirPlay target in Control Centre.
• You can put it in a room and group it with HomePods for synchronised multi-room audio.
• Siri can send music to it by room name.
• It can be the audio output in a scene or an automation.

Power, input selection and volume stay with the unit, its remote and its own app. The Home app does not control those.

BluOS handles multi-room across NAD, Bluesound and Cyrus equipment, alongside AirPlay 2 for HomePods.

Before you buy

The M10 is designed to be seen. It is meant to sit out in the room, not in a rack, which is part of what you are paying for.

Run the Dirac calibration properly with the supplied microphone. Skipping it wastes a large part of the product.

The NAD M66 is the separates-based Masters alternative.

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