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Luxman NT-07B Centennial: What Owners and Reviewers Say About Its Sound and Features

By the All Elite Audio team, Timonium, Maryland · Researched October 17, 2026

The short answer

What is the Luxman NT-07B Centennial?

The NT-07B is Luxman's network transport in the Black Centennial Edition finish, released to mark 100 years of Luxman. Luxman describes the NT-07 as its first network transport, and the centennial edition wraps the same core hardware and software in anodised black aluminium with gold detailing. Press reports at the time described the black edition run as strictly limited, at 100 units per model across the L-509Z integrated, the D-07X CD/SACD player, the NT-07 transport and the PD-151 MkII turntable, with each unit individually tuned and calibrated.

Philosophically it is a purist source. There is no DAC inside and no analogue output. The NT-07B pulls music from your network, attached drives or streaming services, keeps the digital signal clean with an isolated layout and a high precision clock, and hands it to your DAC of choice over USB, coaxial, optical or HDMI. Luxman points to its own D-07X, D-10X and D-03X as natural partners.

One note on scope before the quotes. Owner impressions of the centennial edition itself are scarce, so this post draws on impressions of the standard NT-07 as well. The core design is shared, so the praise carries over to the NT-07B, and every quote below says which model it is about.

Specifications

What it sounds like, in owners words

The strongest listening impressions come from NT-07 owners rather than centennial edition owners. Here is what they heard.

No noise issues at all. I run everything out of a PS Audio Power Plant P12, and have an Aurender NH10 for connection to the ethernet/internet. Whole setup is very quiet and amazingly accurate.

Robert, NT-07 owner (standard NT-07), Roon Labs community forum

In this case I went from one extreme end member to another; a noisy unprepared laptop, to a high end dedicated streamer, over a very detailed and revealing system. The difference was much bigger than I could have had imagined.

Carlo Sanders, NT-07 owner (standard NT-07), Stassen HiFi review

The NT-07 is the best pure streamer we have heard.

Stereofil, Norwegian Luxman dealer, on the standard NT-07 (translated from Norwegian)

Two more impressions come from writers who heard the full centennial system with the NT-07 feeding it. PMA Magazine, listening to a 96/24 Qobuz stream through the centennial electronics at a dealer event, described "explicit, clear, colourful sound, a sense of unobstructed transparency, vivacious musical flow, carved out imaging, and a multitude of explicitly depicted dynamic shifts," and concluded that if you like "effortless momentum, vibrant colours, oodles of detail, and a well focused, harmonically rich presentation," the new line deserves an audition. Stereophile, hearing the centennial stack in the Rhythm Distribution room at AXPONA, found "beautiful timbres and open, spacious sound" with DSD and 24/96 material, noting smoothness and refinement in particular.

Five things owners praise

1. A remarkably quiet background. Robert, an NT-07 owner on the Roon forums, bought the Luxman to match his other Luxman gear and reports "no noise issues at all," calling the whole setup "very quiet and amazingly accurate." That is exactly the result Luxman's isolated network section and oversized power supply are there to produce.
2. It convinced a sceptic. Carlo Sanders, a scientist by trade, bought the NT-07 fully expecting to hear nothing. He went in with what he calls negative bias, assuming the DAC handles everything and the source cannot matter. He heard a difference anyway, and a big one. Honest testimony from someone who did not want to believe is worth more than a dozen press quotes.
3. Robust software and easy handling. In Carlo's words: "The Luxman NT-07 is excellent and works flawlessly with good robust software and easy handling." The LUXMAN Stream app and the aluminium remote get the daily usability job done without fuss.
4. Build quality you feel before you hear. Carlo again: "It is also very well built. Highly recommended." Dealer copy from Music Direct puts it more colorfully: "The touch and feel of NT-07 Black Edition Centennial alone tell you this is no ordinary streamer." At 10.3 kg with a custom wound OI type transformer and a rigid chassis, the hardware backs the claim up.
5. The best of both worlds on hardware and software. Stereofil in Norway calls the NT-07 "the best pure streamer we have heard," and likes the division of labor: pure Luxman components and circuit design with streaming software developed in collaboration with Lumin, who they regard as among the very best streamer makers. Hardware from Luxman's Japanese factory, network smarts from a streaming specialist.

Features, named by name

• LUXMAN Stream app. The free dedicated control app for iOS and Android, with a tailored interface for phones and tablets, covers source selection, playlist creation and device settings. Developed in collaboration with Lumin.
• Intelligent resampling. Per format PCM and DSD up and down sampling settings, so the output can be matched to what your connected DAC handles best. TechRadar called this "a very neat unique selling point."
• OpenHome and UPnP streaming. Reads source data from NAS and dedicated music servers over the network, with Luxman naming audio focused servers such as Melco's DELA and I-O DATA's fidata as ideal partners.
• Roon Ready. The NT-07 platform is Roon Ready, so it drops straight into a Roon system as an endpoint.
• TIDAL Connect and Spotify Connect. Stream directly from the TIDAL and Spotify apps alongside Qobuz and TuneIn inside the LUXMAN Stream app.
• MQA core decoding. Three selectable modes, Off, Core Decoding and Pass Through, so the MQA handling can be matched to the connected DAC or bypassed entirely.
• HDMI input and output with ARC. Brings TV, Blu-ray and console audio into the two channel system, with 4K video pass through and 2 channel playback at up to 192 kHz / 24 bit.
• Front and rear USB 2.0 terminals. Plug a drive straight in and play without building a network environment at all.
• Large organic EL display. A big, easy to read display on the front panel shows the song title, artist, elapsed time and the audio format of what is playing.
• RC-30 aluminium remote. The supplied IR remote handles the main operations without the app, and also controls Luxman disc players and the volume of Luxman integrated and control amplifiers.
• OI type power transformer. A large capacity custom wound transformer with two custom 10,000 uF filter capacitors and highly regulated circuitry, built for noise suppression and stability.

YouTube reviews

Honest criticisms

• The record is small. No Reddit threads, no Steve Hoffman Forums threads, no lab measurements on Audio Science Review, and no verified YouTube reviews. A buyer doing deep research should know the published owner base is a handful of voices.
• It is a transport only. There is no DAC and no analogue output, so the NT-07B must feed an external DAC. Luxman points to its own D-07X, D-10X and D-03X, but that is an extra box and an extra budget line.
• The sceptic case is not settled. Carlo Sanders expected to hear nothing and heard a lot, but an Audiophile Style writer compared a Luxman NT-07 streamer against a DIY Raspberry Pi based Roon endpoint and preferred the DIY build, describing what he had heard as "detail" from the commercial streamer as "low level digital glare" that vanished on the Pi. Reasonable listeners disagree about whether a dedicated transport earns its place.
• The software is Lumin derived. AVForums members noticed the OpenHome core, the MQA handling and the controller app look like a rebadged Lumin, and they are right: Luxman developed the software in collaboration with Lumin. Lumin makes excellent streamers, but buyers who want every layer to be Luxman should know the provenance.
• MQA decoding matters less than it used to. The three MQA modes were a real feature when Tidal still centered on MQA; since the services moved on, the Off and Pass Through settings are what most owners will reach for.
• The black edition was a tight run. Press reports described the Centennial black finish as a strictly limited production run of 100 units per model, originally offered only as a four piece system in some markets. All Elite Audio carries the NT-07B on its own, but the collectible status cuts both ways: this is not a product that will sit in the catalog forever.

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