Da sempre è un tema caldo: accessori o necessari? Ovvero: la miriade di oggetti e oggettini che promettono
da ragionevoli improvement a effetti vicini alla magia hanno una ragion d’essere? Come spesso accade la
risposta non è assoluta ma a volte capita di trovare qualcosa fuori dalla norma.
Makeshift towers of stacked maple or walnut wood flooring samples support the wires to my amps
Take a look at my gallery of homemade cable supports. What a mess! I am embarrassed to show it. With a mid-six figure investment in gear, this is the best I could come up with? I’ve been looking for a cable management solution for as long as I’ve been involved in audio.
They look like simple cable iifters, they act like simple cable lifters but Furutech’s NCF Boosters and NCF Signal Boosters are different beasts indeed. Paul Rigby reviews the lot
able risers are not exactly news, nor are they universally used, accepted or even recommended. In fact, even those who advocate them have trouble agreeing on what they do or how they do it. None of this is, of course, any reason to ignore them.
There’s no doubt. We’re living in the world of accessories, gadgets and gizmos. And our (not so) niche
high-end audio universe is also not prone to a wide array of high-end audio accessories.
It is amazing when you realize that nearly nothing
in existence is as solid as it seems. Unless cooled
down to excessive degrees, everything moves and vi-
brates constantly. When you dive into the world of par-
ticles, it’s all vibration. Not even the particles are solid.
They’re just oscillating forms of energy. All this is so
obvious to us that we only know it from science class.
There we first learnt about particles like miniature mar-
bles orbiting an atomic nucleus. Later we learnt that
those balls don’t really exist. Enter quantum physics
where even stranger concepts are sprung on us. Nev-
ertheless, we can only live by the grace of these ele-
mentary particles.
I’ve said it before: No matter what type of audiophile you are, Furutech probably makes a product you’ve lusted after. In addition to power distributors and filters, and finished interconnects, speaker cables, and power cords, they make DIY bulk cables and component parts, and accessories that include the stainless-steel and silver-plated FI-50 NCF power-cord connectors,
Il est toujours étonnant de voir comment le domaine de la
haute fidélité audio réussit à innover et à se renouveler
à même des produits, des équipements et des accessoires
dont certains contribuent à repousser les limites du possible.
Ce champ d’expertise motive et anime plus d’un concepteur
du milieu à tenter sa chance. D’un emplacement local, on vise
le mondial avec le succès en tête.
Q: What do you do when you’ve assem-
bled a system you love, and you’ve opti-
mized the sound in your room?
A. You look at tweaks.
Today we’ll look at some interesting new
tweaks from Furutech. I have on hand two
types of NCF Boosters. The original NCF
Booster is designed to hold power cables in
place, and the NCF Signal Booster is a scaled
down version designed for interconnects
and speaker cables.
What is Furutech’
I don’t know how our meeting today will be viewed by followers of theories like: “all digital audio devices sound the same” or “cabling has absolutely no influence on the sound
of a device,” but I should now warn the most nervous audio-voodoo hunters before they start to read this text. What is this all about? For me, this is nothing special, as we will
be looking this time not at a cable, but at an accessory for a cable application. But what exactly is it?
