NAD A/V Remote vs Esoteric Sound Stream
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NAD A/V Remote
Control and configure your NAD AV Receiver with a beautiful and intuitive interface. Adjust power, volume, sources, listening modes, and customize your home theater settings from anywhere in your house.
- Power, volume, and source control
- Zone control
- Source naming and presets
- Tone and trim level adjustment
- Tuner control
- Audyssey room equalization
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Welcome to the new NAD Remote App. A beautiful and intuitive user experience offering a fun and simple way to control and configure your NAD AV Receiver. Control, adjust and select basic functions including power, volume, source, and listening mode for all zones with a touch of your iOS device. Name sources, tweak receiver presets, adjust tone controls and trim levels, find radio stations with tuner control, and fully customise your home theatre with Audyssey room equalization, from anywhere in the house. Forget about on-screen menus. Easily use the iOS app and device keyboard to change settings in what would often require a display and tedious name entry, for example naming sources. Supported models include: - T 757, T 758, T 765, T 775, T 785, T 175, T 777, T 787, T 187, M15 HD, M15 HD2, and M17. - If your AV receiver does not have an Ethernet port you can upgrade your MDC cards - Alternatively, if your AV receiver does not have an Ethernet port, a GlobalCache device (WF2SL, IP2SL, or iTach Flex) will need to be installed between your AV receiver's RS232 port and your local network for proper connection. *May require a firmware update for the use of this application. Please check the latest firmware by following your owner’s manual.
Esoteric Sound Stream
Control your network audio player with this app. Easily select music, build custom playlists, and browse your library with intuitive navigation. Advanced search and tag utilization enhance the user experience.
- Select musical tracks
- Create custom playlists
- Intuitive interface
- Advanced search and retrieval
- Cache album artwork
- Sort library by artist, year, composer, category
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Esoteric Sound Stream is an Apple iOS application for the iPad/iPhone designed to work with Esoteric Network Audio Players. The basics of its operation include selecting musical tracks using the iPad/iPhone, creating customized personal playlists, and playing the selections or playlists. All screens for key operation, playlists, library, etc. are arranged for easy viewing, enabling even users unfamiliar with the app to operate it intuitively and trouble-free. Its high degree of refinement even meets the rigorous demands of advanced and experienced users. Key to this achievement is the app’s excellent search and retrieval performance, which takes full advantage of tag information. Since images are also cached in the app, album artwork can be instantly scrolled through and libraries can be freely sorted into such classifications as artist, year of recording, composer or category. This use of tag information even allows musical numbers of the same name which differ in format to be easily identified on the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Esoteric Sound Stream at 3.0 against NAD A/V Remote's 2.0. NAD A/V Remote's advantage is review sentiment (21% vs 12%) and ratings volume (22 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Esoteric Sound Stream holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 21% of NAD A/V Remote's written reviews are positive against 12% of Esoteric Sound Stream's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NAD A/V Remote ships an update every 6 months, Esoteric Sound Stream every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NAD A/V Remote | Esoteric Sound Stream |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (22 ratings) | 3.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.5% of reviews — better | 11.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NAD Electronics | TEAC CORP. |
Customer experience
NAD A/V Remote
Esoteric Sound Stream
In-app purchases
NAD A/V Remote
No in-app purchases
Esoteric Sound Stream
No in-app purchases
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