ADDING TO ITS range of cable and
connector holders, Furutech has now
introduced the NCF Booster-Signal-L,
which allows the cradle to be lowered
much further than on other models –
meaning it is able to support
connections usually positioned lower
on components like interconnects and
power leads, HDMI and USB cables.
Cet optimiseur de courant alternatif, comme le dénomme Furutech, se place sur une prise murale ou sur une barrette secteur. Il tire parti de technologies propriétaires, telles le NCF, le traitement
Alpha Process ou le dispositif installé sur la Clear Line. Le résultat n’est pas un mirage, il devient addictif une fois essayé.
Choć na przestrzeni ostatnich dwóch lat z okładem mieliśmy okazję nie tylko sami rzucić uchem, lecz również podzielić się z Państwem wrażeniami związanymi z wpływem
dedykowanych przewodom akcesoriów antywibracyjnych figurującym w portfolio Furutecha pod postacią członków rodziny Boosterów, to tak naprawdę nad eliminacją
pasożytniczych drgań i innych szkodliwych interferencji Japończycy pracowali już zdecydowanie wcześniej. Nie wiem, czy Państwo pamiętają, ale już latem 2012 r., czyli
niemalże osiem lat temu światło dzienne ujrzał,
Let us not beat about the bush. These beautifully-fin- ished but, at £342 a metre, expensive DSS-4.1 speaker cables from Furutech are big. Really big. With an outer diameter of no less than 19mm, we’re talking bigness of towing-boats pro- portions. And they’re heavy.
Furutech has taken the humble outlet and run it through a gauntlet of refinement far beyond what most of us can imagine.
Performance-wise there’s no doubt that the Furutech removed a layer of low-level grunge from the Sonic window, reducing
noise across the soundstage. Like a Sonic dust cloth, images were more tangible and retrieved with greater clarity. While the
Furutech GTX is not cheap, its uncompromising quality and high performance make it seem like a small price to pay.
Cables have it rough. Last in thought, least in budget, forever to be put to work quickly, and then quickly overshadowed by flashier audio gear. When gushing about an audio system, who starts with the cables? Nobody ever, that’s who. Such neglect is a crying shame. Cables bear the precious audio signal like a yeoman’s cart dispatched by his ladyship. They’re the pack mules in the trip down the Grand Canyon; the Pontoon boat floating down the Mekon river. Without cables, your audio system deluxe is just odd-looking furniture. Cables deserve accolades, no matter how much contrary nonsense is spouted off by cynics. I deny the cable deniers!
It’s no secret that I like to tweak. In fact, I made a name for myself and built a huge following in my early writing career writing about such minutiae. My third paid audio writing gig (after folding the audio analyst© that I had founded in 1988), saw me at full throttle on that mission in the mid 1990s. In my three years at that online journal, aside from writing twenty-three hardware reviews, ten media reviews (music and film), and three musings on different subjects from the virtues of vinyl to demystifying the underlying technology and resultant sonic characteristics of different loudspeaker cable constructions, I also wrote thirty-five tweaking articles that appeared in a monthly column.
Marc Phillips has been doing music reviews for Positive Feedback for quite a while now. In the interest of full disclosure, he is also a distributor (Colleen Cardas Imports), and has a separate life selling fine audio gear. You’ll want to keep this in mind as you read his comments…but his evaluation dovetails exactly with my own take on the Furutech NCF Boosters. They are remarkable devices.
Furutech adds a third edition to the range – ideal for HDMI and USB cables
Not only do the NCF Boosters lift audio cables off the floor and enable optimum alignment between connectors and sockets, they also provide damping for both cables and connectors.
Japan… land of the rising HiFi. When
one thinks of Japanese cultural sym-
bols, thoughts of drift cars, pachinko
machines, portable music players, and
Shinkansen bullet trains readily… ehm…
drift through the mind. Japan is a detail-
oriented country. No other society on
earth can so happily obsess on making
minor improvements to small items to
invoke signifi cant increases in overall
performance — especially with cars and
electronics.
