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.
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.
Sometimes, you can’t help but get giddy about a product that most everyone is going to gripe that, “It can’t
possibly work!” But the fact is the highly debatable yet finely engineered Furutech NCF Booster-Signal I’ve been
lucky enough to be closely reviewing these past few months clearly improves the clarity, focus, resolution, and
musical enjoyment of just about any otherwise free hanging or gently lying-about cable you may be using in your
high-end audio playback system.
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,
