Anyone heard Nuforce Reference 18's

Interesting. I have been eyeing the Pass Labs XA's but was concerned that the 30.5 would not have enough power to drive my speakers in a large room

Rothwea
I am curious if when using the Nuforce you used vibration control, mass loading and power separation from your other equipment - when I did these three things the Nuforce became very special clear signal passers, before that they were good in the bass but harsh in the highs.

Worldcat
Just read the review today. Thanks for the heads up. They did indeed like them. Did you have the Ref 9's before?

For my Ref 9 V3SE's, I use 3 Hyperion Magnetic floaters each directly under them, sitting on an oak shelf, under which are sandwiches of rubber-cork-rubber. This helped considerably. Then I added a 5 lbs diving bag filled with lead shot on top of each and obtained great results in liquidity and reduction of glare and etch and better sound staging. I also have the Ref 9's plugged direct into dedicated line with all other equip going through a power conditioner on another outlet to separate out the Nuforce because I think they can transmit dirt back into the other equipment. All this sounds complicated but it is easy and cheap to do and resulted in stellar sound. I wonder if some of the improvement in the 18's is a result of increased weight and isolation, which is fine with me.

Vicdamone - Glad you posted. There are other discerning folks out there who I have been in contact with by phone who have also spent the time to dial in these amps and been very satisfied compared to many high rated tube and SS amps. Magnan Audio Cables has two great pages about Nuforce amp tweaks. If you PM I can send to you as the link to page is no longer active.

I started with Adcom amp, then Onkyo Grand Intergra 508, then Aragon 8008BB. Listened to Pass XA 100.5 and several others near time of purchase and started with the V2SE