Nuforce V3 mod


Has anyone heard the Nuforce V3 mod done on their Reference V2SE? Please compare. Thanks
gammajo

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Before the V3 upgrade I was thinking, maybe it's time to audition a different amp. Right, like I'm going to get off my butt and look for another amplifier especially after being so satisfied with the NuForce V1. What's the point?

Milpitas is about twenty miles away so I hand delivered them. The Nuforce facility is a very unpretentious light manufacturing building located just off Hwy 880. The folks there are very sweet and gave me a completion time about a week out. Two days later the work was done.

My first impression was that they sounded worse then the V1. I then noticed that the batteries in my preamp weren't holding a charge and running the system off the charger was only slightly better. After some new cells and a checkup by the designer I left the system on and took a ten day trip.

Walking through the front door both my wife and I noticed a substantial improvement. This was a V1 to V3 upgrade and for once my procrastinating nature becomes an asset.
I had the FM on, playing through some backup speakers. These SE's are the third set of switching amps I've used and run in has always been surprising. Our Pioneer Elite SC-07 HT receiver has been the least finicky switching amp so far. It comes with an unusual looking captive two conductor power cord that looks like small Romex wire. Just for grins I plugged it into the same outlet as the refrigerator and it remained dead quite.