markalarsen
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| Class D amps,bang for your buck ones I now have had an opportunity to upgrade to the NuForce Reference 9V3SE and allow them to burn in. Burning in was critical. What incredible amps. I doubt you will be seeing any of these on the used market. I am a NuForce fan for life.Mark | |
| Nuforce V3 mod Gammajo, likewise, sorry to hear about your broken leg.I have to agree with Sultrains's obervations on the sound of the V3s. He is dead on accurate, except for the vinyl comments. Best front end is all digital: USB DAC with no preamp, combined wit... | |
| Nuforce V3 mod At 140 or so hours, I noted the same problem Edgar Kramer observed at 100 hours. Everything fell apart. It was not as bad as out-of-the-box, but really muddled. Now, at 250+ hours of burn in, what a wonderful set of amps. Fabulous in all levels of... | |
| Nuforce V3 mod The 9V3SE does not sound lean or thin. In addition to more detail, the soundstage is much improved. It is far deeper and wider, extending beyond the edges of the speakers, both left and right.Mark | |
| Nuforce V3 mod After 130 hours of burn-in, my amps sound fantastic. What a difference from their out-of-the-box performance, where my initial, gut-retching reaction was that I had blown a voice coil. I did not chart the course of the burn in, but am thrilled wit... | |
| Nuforce V3 mod Edgar,I read your review on 6moons the day it was published. Well done. BTW, I purchased some Cerious Technologies speaker cables to try them simply because you were using them as a reference cable.I, however, am on a different roller coaster; I j... | |
| Nuforce V3 mod We may be listening to the same thing -- shrill midrandge and attenuated high end. I am calling it terrible and you, expecting necessary burn in, are saying not bad out of the box. Thank you for the hope.Mark | |
| Nuforce V3 mod Here is Nuforce's response on burn-in:"Hi, A moderate volume is OK to burn in the unit, not necessary very loud. Regards, Casey Nuforce"I know burn in is critical, so I am not snapping to a judgment until I hit 150 hours +.Mark | |
| Nuforce V3 mod Well, I received the 9V3SEs today, and out of the box, they sound terrible. I hope the burn in transforms them into the amps everyone else is describing.Mark | |
| Nuforce V3 mod Jason,Does the volume -- high or low -- make a difference in terms of the length of the burn in?Mark | |
| Cables for GamuT L-5 speakers? Zu Ibis | |
| Nuforce V3 mod I am in the NuForce upgrade queue, so likewise am very interested in your impressions. Anyone know anything about the Reference 18?Mark | |
| Class D amps,bang for your buck ones I am considering upgrading from Nuforce Reference 9SE to Nuforce Reference 9 V3 SE. Anyone heard the Nuforce Reference 9 V3 SE? The upgrade path seems reasonable to me.Mark | |
| We often underate the importance of the DAC I agree. Once you use a USB driven dac with a lossless format, you will not go back to a transport.Mark | |
| What happened to the loudness control? A loudness contour is designed to compensate for the long-recognized Fletcher-Munson curve, which dates back to 1933 and now is memorialized in ISO 226:2003. The problem is not with the equipment, but with the human ear: at lower volumes, bass and... |