

A bit frustrating as i like to quickly press the unit to stop playback prior to sleep in the evening. I have no easy ability to pause of stop playback without using the app. The small graphic in the lower right still shows active and playing while muted. My unit simply 'mutes' the audio and the stream continues to play. I am interested that in your review, you state that pressing the dial pauses the stream/playback. start and stop the stream) from the main unit a bit annoying. I do like the NAD, however I find the lack of ability to 'play' and 'pause' (i.e. BluOS definitely has a simplified implementation of all streaming services. What do you like about AURALiC’s Amazon implementation? Just curious. It isn’t niche to me as a fan of both PCM and DSD, but I understand not all products are geared toward us. I certainly hear you, but I’m willing to bet NAD sees the DSD market as very niche, just like Schiit Audio. They were supposed to correct this, but I haven't yet heard anything to date. In addition, for the M33, they mis-specked the backplate for the USB module so you can't use the USB and HDMI modules at the same time. The implementation of Amazon Music is poor, especially compared to what Auralic has done. The problem also remains that with the M33, everything goes through the D/A processor, including the analog input, so that if you even wanted to use a a different DAC that decodes native DSD, you are still out of luck. They have this whole rap about converting the PCM is the same, but it is not. I have a number of NAD/Bluesound pieces of equipment including an M33.
