Product Review

2009-10-14

Comme toujours chez Furutech, il n'y a nulle place pour le hasard dans cette fabrication rigoureuse. L'Evolution Power II embarque pour chaque polarité (comme pour la masse) 7 groupes de 35 conducteurs en cuivre OFC de 0,18 mm, tous traités Alpha ! L'isolation de chaque polarité est assurée par une pellicule de polyéthylène, et le blindage par 9 groupes de 24 conducteurs en cuivre pur de 0,12 mm. La gaine externe en PVC est recouverte d'une tresse en nylon qui renforce l'amortissement mécanique. Enfin, les prises IEC et Shuko sont des modèles plaqués or de la série FI-E11. Ils embarquent des conducteurs en bronze phosphoré traité Alpha.

2009-10-14

connectique. De là à faire des câbles, et des blocs-prises, il n'y avait qu'un pas, franchi depuis longtemps ! L'ETP 609e est un très bel objet, au poids conséquent. Totalement inerte, ce lingot métallique repose sur quatre petits cônes de découplage de façon à évacuer les vibrations (le secteur en véhicule beaucoup, malheureuse- ment). Les six prises sont des Schuko en rhodium, seule garantie d'une pureté absolue dans le passage du courant à basse ou haute tension, selon Furutech. Enfin, le constructeur japonais utilise son procédé

2009-09-15

Still spinning those black discs from years gone by? Not black CDRs but real 'vinyl' black discs… you know records? What you say… yeah sure (heck even my 21 year old son prefers vinyl over digital which is why he is now buying records when he can—he owns a turntable!). But have you tried any record clamps lately? Say what? Well clamping a record to the platter can yield great benefits, and how it is done will defiantly has it influences.

2009-09-15

Micro Bio & Professional Disclosure: Guido D. Corona recently retired from IBM Corp. with over 26 years of service. He is currently a web accessibility and US Federal Section 508 consultant. He has contributed equipment reviews to The Absolute Sound, and articles on Access World Online ( http://www.afb.org/aw/main.asp ). Guido Corona is also a professional contributing copywriter to the upcoming Jeff Rowland Design online knowledge base. While his connection with the Rowland database project is minor, Mr. Corona will recuse himself from reviews of Rowland gear. Ye Olde Editor]

2009-08-15

Furutech has come on strong the past few years with multiple innovations most of which were relatively low cost high value offerings, but always high tech. Their previous phono cable was under $500 and did a very good job with high-end cartridges. Now Furutech has taken off the gloves and committed their huge resources to a cutting edge cable offering with all the technological expertise at their command. The Silver Arrow Phono Cable, yes its expensive and yes it delivers the musical goods and more.

2009-08-15

If you're a regular reader of this site, you're presumably among the converted: a true-blue audiophile who has no question that there are profound qualitative differences to be heard between different amplifiers, preamplifiers, and CD players—not to mention cables, cords, power conditioners, equipment racks, and even footers. On the other side of the audio divide are the debunkers: those who think those differences are usually at best negligible, and who view audiophiles as pitiable obsessive-compulsives who delude themselves into hearing distinctions that aren't really there.

2009-08-15

Glücklicherweise haben Bedini Clarifier und Furutech RD-1 und -2 in audiophilen Kreisen für eine gewisse Akzeptanz von Geräten zur Entmagnetisierung gesorgt. Andernfalls hätte ich es mir bestimmt zweimal überlegt, Ihnen dieses UFO vorzustellen.

2009-08-14

Begin met een leek over de zin of onzin van kabels en je hebt er een hele kluif aan om overeind te blijven in de discussie die er op volgt. Laatst had ik 't nog over het nut van netsnoeren, naar aanleiding van de test die u nu aan het lezen bent. Ditmaal niet met een leek maar met mijn aanstaande zwager. Die is iets hoogs bij Nuon, in de techniek, met hogere cijfers voor natuur- en scheikunde, tijdens een voor de rest vreedzaam verlopen verjaardag.

2009-06-15

You couldn't pay me enough to conduct a shoot-out of 12 DIN-to-RCA phono cables. I did it anyway. Why? Because the cables were there, as was the SME 20/12 turntable, returned from its recent photo session for the cov- er of the May Stereophile. The SME's ex- posed DIN jack made switching among the candidates relatively painless.

2009-06-14

Furutech's cable family has built up something of a reputation for precise performance and quality construction since it was first introduced to this market. The Reference III range, of which we've covered both the speaker cables and the analogue interconnects in recent months, finds itself at the top of the line-up.
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