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In Reply to: RE: My experience with the Furutech connectors... posted by Cougar on September 01, 2016 at 20:40:47
Everyone I've talked to (regarding the new NCF connectors & NCF wall duplex) has told me that there is no forwardness to the presentation, regardless of the rhodium plating....and they were familiar with that forward characteristic in the past, though not on everything they'd listened to.
The NCF connectors & wall duplex may set a new standard for high-performance....we'll see. I need to install my NCF duplex soon and compare it to the R-1. This new technology does come at a higher price, unfortunately....but I do understand the cost of materials and superior build quality, something that Oyaide understood over a decade ago, raising that bar for everyone else.
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but with a little more depth than before. You can just hearing all the little details in the background that you either couldn't before or were just very faint.
I know the soundstage will change again once I get the new power cord and connectors for my VTA-120 tube amp. Seems like every extra component that is tube gets a little more deeper in soundstage but I don't want it too deep like I'm in a back row. Chris Brady mention something like that with his all tube system.
With the 2 way horns will be building this will not be the case. :)
Alan, my experience with (non-NCF) Rhodium plated AC connectors was the same as yours. A couple months ago I tried some NCF Rhodium IEC inlets on my amps in place of the Furutech Gold inlets I was using previously. My initial reactions were positive, but after making some other changes to the system recently I decided to try the Gold inlets again. I am now back to Gold inlets all the way! To my ears they are better balanced tonally and they have more refined mids and treble than the NCF Rhodium. Of course, the type of IEC connector on the power cord makes a big difference, so perhaps someone using a different connector might reach a different conclusion. My power cords use Audio Note ISIS copper wire and have Furutech FI-11 Silver IEC plugs and FI-11M Copper AC plugs.
I fully agree that a silver Furutech FI-11(Ag) IEC connector sounds better when mated with a gold Furutech IEC inlet.
I got the idea of using those particular Furutech connectors from you, so thanks for the recommendation. It makes an especially synergistic match with the Audio Note ISIS mains cable.
Hi Salectric,
Finding audiophile synergy can be difficult since listening to an audio device is a far more complex experience than say the synergy of mixing & matching colors involved in industrial or artistic applications. You can have multitudes of color swatches to choose from, while mixing & matching audio devices can only be determined by putting rubber to the road, and going though what some folks might consider tedious investments, installations, modifications, and further evaluations they simply don't have the time, funds, dedicated interest, or endless evaluations to endure. I have looked at the process from a different angle -- I do it for my own creative, intellectual, aesthetic, and social purposes rather than settling for less within my audiophile hobby.
Cheers, Duster
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