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Endpoint Network Streamer
NAD’s affordable CS1 Endpoint Network Streamer lets you add music streaming capability to any stereo or home-theatre system. Or you can configure a low-footprint music system for your den or home office by connecting the CS1 to a pair of powered speakers. The CS1 supports the most popular network streaming and casting protocols, including Apple AirPlay 2, Chromecast, Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect, DLNA mobile and computer apps*, and Roon, so you can control playback with the music apps you use every day. The CS1 employs audiophile-grade components and can play high-resolution audio, up to 24-bit/192kHz.
Premium Sound
The CS1 features an advanced differential digital section based on Texas Instruments’ PCM5141 DAC, a design known for its wide dynamic range, low noise floor, and immunity to clock jitter. It supports resolution up to 24-bit/192kHz and has full MQA decoding and rendering capability for playing Master Quality music from Tidal.
Streaming doesn’t get easier than this. Pair the NAD CS1 Endpoint Network Streamer with your mobile device or connect it to your home network, then use your favorite apps to choose the music you want to hear. Then sit back and enjoy glorious, high-fidelity sound.
Plug and Play
A compact, minimalist design, the NAD CS1 has a pair of line-level analogue RCA outputs for connection to a stereo receiver, integrated amp, preamplifier, or a pair of powered speakers. Alternatively, you can use the CS1’s optical or coaxial output to send digital audio to an AV receiver, external DAC, or a pair of powered speakers with digital input, at up to 24-bit/192kHz resolution.
You can connect the CS1 to your home network via Wi-Fi or hardwire its LAN Ethernet port to your network router or an access point, or use Bluetooth to pair the CS1 with your mobile device.
Stream Your Way
You don’t have to install special apps to play music through the NAD CS1 Endpoint Network Streamer. Using Bluetooth, you can stream audio from any app on your smartphone, tablet, or computer.
You’ll get even better sound via Wi-Fi or Ethernet. The CS1 supports AirPlay 2, so you can stream CD-resolution audio from any app on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, or from an iTunes library on a Windows PC. With Chromecast, you can choose the music you want to hear in any Cast-enabled app on a mobile device or personal computer, then transfer playback to the CS1 at up to 24-bit/96kHz resolution.
Spotify and Tidal subscribers can cue up music in the apps for those services, then transfer playback from their device to the CS1. Roon subscribers can play music from their digital libraries and from streaming services supported by Roon.
Features & Details
- Compact, minimalist design
- Built-in Bluetooth
- Dual-band Wi-Fi plus LAN Ethernet port
- Stereo analogue, optical digital, and coaxial digital outputs
- Premium differential DAC design based on Texas Instruments PCM5141 DAC, with support for 24-bit/192kHz high-resolution audio
- High-resolution music streaming from Tidal
- Apple AirPlay 2 support allows CD-resolution streaming from any audio app on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac
- Chromecast support allows playback at up to 24-bit/96kHz resolution from any Cast-enabled app on a smartphone, tablet, or personal computer
- Spotify Connect and Tidal Connect support lets users cue up music on a smart device, then transfer playback to the CS1
Mark
Reviewed in Canada on March 19, 2025
Great product easy to set up and sounds great.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2025
Front End Nad CS1The affordable Frontend NAD CS1 is not designed to connect out of the box with the integrated Bluetooth for example to my Apple neighborhood (Mac mini, iPhone 15, iPad 8) and a Klipsch Bluetooth speaker.First you have to let start the automatic soft-/firmware download in an adequate area (Internet) then you have to make a setup at the rear side of the NAD CS1: below ‘Setup’ you’ll find that tiny hole!Now the NAD CS1 Bluetooth is enabled I had to find and connect the NAD CS1 in the iPhone Bluetooth register where it appears with an additional four digit code.Besides Bluetooth and Internet connectivity the NAD CS1 has RCA, optical, Coax and Ethernet connections.There is only one button and a multicolor LED: learning by doing! Blue light - Bluetooth ready!It’s a Frontend and there doesn’t exist any App to access the Nad frontend. But the NAD CS1 is Roon Ready and works with this Music Service (and other) out of the box.If you have trouble with the NAD please read this:‘NAD CS1 review: a bare-bones network streamerBy Simon Cohen’At last I’m exited with my NAD CS1 it’s amazing how smoothly it works in a surrounding with Internet and Bluetooth and besides furthermore connectivity there areremarkable useful utensils for international electrical connections.All in all 4.9!
1GoodDog
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024
Could not connect my phone to it. Both the quickstart instructions and the latest manual of the NAD website were useless. iOS app never found the device, even when i successfully connected to its Soft AP. Could use it as an airplay receiver using wired ethernet but could never connect from iOS to adjust any settings using the app. Returned. Shame too because the hardware and features look nice. I especially liked having a 12V trigger output.
Paqui
Reviewed in France on February 11, 2024
Top. Du Nad tout simplement
Mat
Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2023
I picked one up and gave it an honest trySetup was simple, uses combo of bluetooth and google home to connect it to your network (android, ios has a different app) and then it just works. Build quality is....well it's plastic and feels like the matte finish will scratch easy if you're not careful.I only tested with Airplay since that's my stream of choice. I couldn't for the life of me hear any audible improvement over my Airport Express (though that is jittery and wont work on cheaper dacs, so the NAD would be a functional improvement to most). I have heard improvements with another, cheaper streamer, so it's disappointing this wasn't noticeably doing anything more.The internal DAC sounded good, but couldn't compare to my external DACs. When compared to my ("flagship") NAD M51 DAC, soundstage was reduced; everything was a little more "veiled" when A/Bing; the most in-my-face difference was on a sustained guitar chord on one track, the CS1 was noticeably flatter when I flipped between sources. But these were two very different price brackets, and years. A lot of the other differences were more strained to pick out, and it probably compared to another DAC I had in the CS1's price range from another brand.I think overall this is overvalued as there are competitive options at over half the price if all you care about is digital output streaming. If the DAC was better, or the streaming function sounded much better than cheaper options, then it could be justified, but in the end if it wasn't improving sound then what's the point?
Timothy Sales
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2023
This was an upgrade for me from a Belkin AirPlay adpater. Sound quality is much better, plus this device works better with Roon and allows me to control my attached NAD D3020 DAC/AMP via Roon. It's more expensive than most solutions, but rock solid. Worth it for me!
Marc Fournier
Reviewed in Canada on August 2, 2023
Facile à installerSimple à utiliserUn peut cher à mon goût mais très belle achat
Bill
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2023
Never knew streaming audio could sound this good!
Danny Marchand
Reviewed in Canada on May 16, 2023
Je voulais un appareil capable de faire du streaming hi-fi pour compléter ma chaîne, et avec cet appareil, j'ai trouvé. Très simple d'utilisation et très efficace le son étant d'une pureté. Pour le faible investissement, le CS1 vient rehausser ma chaîne grandement.
Raymond Hood
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023
I really wanted to like this unit because I have an NAD 20 year old receiver that still works and sounds great. Looks wise it’s a great match. They claim easy to connect, but I had to search several places online to find a way to get it to connect to my iPad Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro. Trying to reconnect after turning off was difficult. When it was connected, sound quality was lifeless and compressed compared to DAC and Bluetooth adapter it was to replace because after a few years something stopped working. I’m returning the unit the next day, and renewing my search for a better solution.
Bri
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2023
Bought this lil guy to match up to my c368 and with it coming in 200 bucks cheaper than NAD’s MDC card to stream, I feel like I lucked out. I also prefer the dac in the CS1 compared to the amp. Matches great, although it’s super tiny on top of that big amp but that’s ok: it isn’t blocking and of the breathing holes on top!I plugged an Ethernet into it from my gigabit switch and voila! It’s never shutdown or lost connection in the 8 months I’ve had it and we’ve put hundreds of hours on this thing as we don’t watch tv. Can’t speak for its WiFi but I prefer the sound of chrome cast by way of ROON but idk if we chalk that up to the cs1, Google or roon.My only complaint would be no aux out but that’s ok, I can plug laptop directly into the amp.
Mindless Consumer
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2023
The sound quality seems better than the Topping DX3+. Does has some shortcomings though. I had to scale back to WAP2 security on my WIFI router in order to use the CS1 because the CS1 does not work with WAP3. WAP3 came out in 2018 and it is 2023 now. If I don't use the CS1 for awhile, I can no longer connect to it via WIFI. NAD support said that was deal for for now, but they notified their quality assurance team. They said to unplug for 2 minutes, and then wait for 5 minutes after plugging it in before trying to connect.
Tom C.
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2023
I bought the CS1 for the MQA features detailed on the NAD website. I returned it after getting a different story from NAD Support...From NAD website: "It supports resolution up to 24-bit/192kHz and has full MQA decoding and rendering capability for playing Master Quality music from Tidal."From NAD support: "The CS1 does not contain an MQA DAC and simply acts as a passthrough. If you want MQA using the CS1 you must send it from your phone at full volume to the CS1 and you must go digital out (COAX or OPTICAL) to the CS1 to a DAC that supports MQA and volume will be controlled by the amp on the other side of that DAC. If you are not doing that you are not getting MQA."
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