I never understand if these reviewers are simply deluded, poor pushovers, or scam artists.Both Six Moons and Enjoy the Music claim it makes a night and day difference. All kinds of ratings including attack, decay, inner resolution (as opposed to outer?) "soundscape extension into room" and more. Okay, now I am done with both of those sites. Never again.
NCF Clear Line
6moons.com
Furutech NCF Clear Line AC Power Line Optimizer Review A skeptic gets his comeuppance. Review By Paul Schumann
Furutech NCF Clear Line AC Power Line Optimizer Review A skeptic gets his comeuppance. Review By Paul Schumann of Enjoy the Music.comwww.enjoythemusic.com
When they think they are hearing inner resolution on the soundscape extension decay you have to wonder. These are the same people that wax poetic about $20,000 interconnects with some kind of magic box in the middle. I was just looking at the recent test of the cheapest interconnect I have ever seen and it is a perfect coupler, no degradation. Ouch....I never understand if these reviewers are simply deluded, poor pushovers, or scam artists.
2. NCF = Furutech's improved Nano Crystal² Formula >> Pixie Dust???"α (Alpha) Pure-Copper Rhodium-plated Conductor electrodes and passive "Air Coils" constructed with α(Alpha)-OCC enameled wire coated a silver color resonance damping material."
3. Housing = Don't you dare call it plastic because it is nylon! >> S(h)ell Game???"Furutech NCF combines nano-sized ceramic particles and carbon powder, cryogenically treated so that it crystallizes. This material was developed through extensive testing in the Furutech labs in Japan, with the results confirmed through both measurements and listening. NCF is remarkable because it has two active properties—it generates negative ions that eliminate static, and it converts thermal energy into far infrared."
4. End-Cover (Multi-material hybrid structure) = Multi-Hybrid???"Four-layer hybrid NCF carbon housing composed of an outer hard clear coat over a NCF textured carbon fiber particle composite layer with another layer of NCF and 3K carbon fiber layer beneath that. Inner surface is NCF Nylon insulation… incorporating nano-sized ceramic particles and carbon powder for their additional "Piezo Effect" damping properties."
5. Pressure in Air Chamber = Flatulence???"Anti-static and resonance suppressing qualities with molded channels to increase the surface area of the NCF material by 76% for improved effectiveness – ultimate resonance damping for improved tonal balance. The best of damping and insulation materials also improve frequency extension."
I originally thought the 'coils' were some circular-polarized (RHCP) antenna, [probably] tuned to 4.784 x 10^13 and then absorbed by the housing/end-cover.Boy, was I wrong!"The internal air chamber is pressure sealed for additional damping effects."
I remember the “holly water” that improves sound when placed next to a turntable…
This is how I felt after reading that;
Hope they give you a refund...FYI, I got at least two requests in youtube to test this product and hence the reason I bought it.
Come on, throw in a coupla bucks to the ASR fund instead of expecting that sort of thingHope they give you a refund...
That was me. But you have to keep in mind, the device from Stein music "is a unique combination of electronic circuit, power cleaner, quantum physics and crystal technology", so it works completely differently!But will it make my electric kettle boil faster?
Someone upthread linked to Stein Music ... I see they make one of these too, only €398.
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What is the biggest deception for me is that the company is japanese. They are usually known for accuracy and honesty. No offense, but if it would have been an american company I wouldn´t have been surprised the least (Audioquest, Nordost, PS Audio,....).
All it'll take is for them to do a 'comparison' where they genuinely believed they heard a difference, yet nothing was actually done, to perhaps awaken to the fact that we and our minds are SO easily fooled and thereby ultimately ripped off by products like this. These people will just mock the likes of 'us' until they experience that.I never understand if these reviewers are simply deluded, poor pushovers, or scam artists.
What? Where did you see that?