redkiwi
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| Does such a beast exist? I second the Nuforce P8. This is a raging steal with no teething problems one might associate with a new product from a new firm. Incredible value. | |
| jrdg concerto vs nuforce 9.02 I owned a pair of Rowland Model 201s (same amp modules as in the Concerto), and bought a very early model Nuforce Ref 8. The Ref 8 was horrible to listen to but somehow it seemed that underneath a nasty hardness to mids and treble there was someth... | |
| any compatibility opinions on Nuforce amps with No I have owned both Nordost and Nuforce and doubt the combo would be ideal. When I had the Nordost cables I was always saying to myself 'wow these cables don't put a foot wrong'. But I also found that I became less interested in my system and in mus... | |
| NuForce Reference 8 vs. 9 By the way, I find the P8 to be excellent, in that it is neutral, smooth and transparent. It smoked the Plinius M8 I compared it with by a large margin in my opinion, the M8 being quite electronic hard and grainy sounding. But the P8 is not a tube... | |
| Nuforce Haven't heard the H2O as they are not distributed/supported in my country (the Nuforce are). But for whatever reason I hear more potential in the Nuforce design than the IcePower design (have owned and played with both. This view appears to me to ... | |
| Nuforce You guys don't appear to me to understand what is being said in terms of 'the customer being always right'. This is not saying the customer is right about the facts (if you read my post you will see I said just that). It is saying as a business, c... | |
| Nuforce I am happy with Nuforce's policy. I am happy that the market is 'buyer beware' unless there have been misrepresentations. I am happy with the Nuforce amps I have and I am upgrading to some new Nuforce amps.I also appreciate that it is tough being ... | |
| CDP clicks between tracks.and at the begininning?? If a digital stream to a DAC is broken for any period of time then the DAC will produce a click. Therefore it is possible that what is happening is that the digital stream is going dead between tracks when in fact the packets should be filled with... | |
| Nuforce Hey Pitdog. I agree the Tripath has been surpassed, and I found the Nuforce capable of beating the IcePower, so that kind of gels for me. Any particular reason you are not interested in digital amps? If a digital amp sounded better than your curre... | |
| Nuforce I think the sound quality for the money is unmatched by conventional designs. But that no doubt depends on what you want your amps to do. I prefer the analogue switching amps and find conventional amps sound broken by comparison - unacceptable lev... | |
| Nuforce I was trying to say that Nuforce appeared to have no idea how to implement an audio design when they made the Ref8, but that since then (like me) they have been working on getting the implementation right. Using their customers as Beta-testers is ... | |
| Nuforce Just a few observations to throw into this. I had a pair of Rowland Model 201s, and bought a very early pair of Nuforce Ref 8, the 70W version. The Nuforce was almost impossible to listen to, being hard from the upper midband up. I then opened the... | |
| Affordable anti-jitter device I agree with Avguygeorge - look for a DAC that can deal with jitter well. With respect, I would have to disagree on the Benchmark being state of the art reclocking. The claims might be grand but the method is cheap and cheerful. The Benchmark uses... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? I totally endorse the Squeezebox as a great way to get computer-based audio without having a PC in the room, but to get great sound out of it you really need a DAC that has excellent jitter-rejection. The best news on this front is the Lavry DA10 ... | |
| Lavry use and experience? I have owned the Lavry Blue and can say it was significantly better than the Benchmark DAC1, in ways that would be important to an audiophile. The Lavry DA10 is reported to sound close to the Lavry Blue, which makes it an amazing bargain. The Blue... |