Analog 2025/06
A new easy-to-use power box from Furutech that brings out high-quality
performance from your system
Audio commentator Mr. Saburo Ubukata for Analog Magazine Japan
A new easy-to-use power box from Furutech that brings out high-quality
performance from your system
Audio commentator Mr. Saburo Ubukata for Analog Magazine Japan
Furutech, da sempre
produttore di cavi e ac-
cessori video di grande
qualità, nel 2020 ha ampliato
il suo catalogo presentando
una serie di accessori, i Cle-
ar Line: NCF Booster,
“I gave the NCFs a go on my Pass Labs preamp and dCS Puccini multiplayer. Damn! Yes, the
impression was subtle and required recordings of sufficient resolution and harmonic
complexity to detect. But it was like giving the soundstage a good sweeping—or taking a
dust cloth to a surface and revealing more of the true finish beneath a fine layer of grime.
Details and transient cues just had a little more pop and definition.
Following on from
Furutech’s NCF Clear Line Mains
Optimiser (HFC 478) is this new
version designed to be inserted into
any spare RCA socket on your
equipment (XLR versions are also
available). The optimiser is intended
to combat the noise that can enter
an audio system and find its way
into the signal path. This entirely
passive product contains Furutech’s
NCF (Nano Crystal Formula), which
is a special crystalline material
intended to generate negative ions
to reduce static and also convert
thermal energy into far infrared.
Cryogenic treatment is key to almost every Furutech cable and connector, as is the promise of exceptional build and finish quality [HFN Mar ’18]. With cables, of course, the material engineering can easily be quantified, but with the Japanese brand’s ‘noise busting’ NCF Clear Line plugs – supplied with RCA and XLR terminations for insertion into unused audio inputs – the science can easily lose some clarity. Prices are £205 for each RCA-equipped plug and £260 for the bigger male and female XLR derivatives.
It is well known that the Japanese company Furutech has a wealth of different cables, available “from the spool”, as well as factory confectioned, but they also do not forget
about people wanting to upgrade their systems using different kinds of accessories, often called audio trinkets. Starting with the universal Destat, brushes and vinyl disc
straighteners, through cable supports (NCF Booster / NCF Booster Signal) and ending with power strips
Looking to reduce noise from the HiFi chain, Paul Rigby grabs a set of RCA and XLR plugs from the Japanese company
“Utilize the available terminals of your equipment; a new
item for improving sound quality is now available.”