Furutech NCF Clear Line Review (AC Optimizer)

[Theodore8]

No matter what your skills or experience - if you are determined strongly enough to hear a difference... you will hear one... our brains are fun and frustrating at the same time.
Sadly it's not limited to audio - the planet would be in a much better place if it was.

You are so right.

Even Brendon Heinst, the extremely gifted sound engineer who has developed cutting-edge recording techniques, is victim to it. But then again, perhaps he gets paid for it.

 

[TheBatsEar]

I hear you but I think you are confusing Earth with Vulcan.

On that note, here is a Vulcan with a tear rolling down her face, because why not. Happened during the burial in space for Lieutenant Saavik:

Vulcans aren't what they used to be.

 

[linger63]

On that note, here is a Vulcan with a tear rolling down her face, because why not. Happened during the burial in space for Lieutenant Saavik:

Vulcans aren't what they used to be.

Actually that Vulcan is Lieutenant Saavik......

 

[TheBatsEar]

Actually that Vulcan is Lieutenant Saavik......

THEN WHO WAS IN THE COFFIN!

Was it Spock? I need to watch these movies again.

 

[Mart68]

THEN WHO WAS IN THE COFFIN!
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Was it Spock? I need to watch these movies again.

Just the even numbered ones.

 

[linger63]

THEN WHO WAS IN THE COFFIN!
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Was it Spock? I need to watch these movies again.

Yep,,,,,,,,,Spock

 

[digicidal]

You are so right.

Even Brendon Heinst, the extremely gifted sound engineer who has developed cutting-edge recording techniques, is victim to it. But then again, perhaps he gets paid for it.

It's guaranteed in this particular case. Whether it's a profit-share, direct payment, or something else (free suite of snake oil products) - you don't make a video like this, with the script being straight out of the product tear-sheets (is that still a thing in the online age?) without compensation.

It's funny... if they simply marketed them as a way of providing vertical strain-relief for heavy cables... I'd give them a pass. However when you get into the "special NCF properties" it's a totally different thing. I particularly liked the following part - taken verbatim from the Furutech marketing (under "Features"):

NCF features a special crystalline material that has two 'active' properties. First, it generates negative ions that eliminate static. Second, it converts thermal energy into far infrared.

So non-conductive and "transforms" heat into... heat. WOW... totally worth the ludicrous price tag for some carbon injected plastic and cheap aluminum hardware.

 

[antcollinet]

It's guaranteed in this particular case. Whether it's a profit-share, direct payment, or something else (free suite of snake oil products) - you don't make a video like this, with the script being straight out of the product tear-sheets (is that still a thing in the online age?) without compensation.

It's funny... if they simply marketed them as a way of providing vertical strain-relief for heavy cables... I'd give them a pass. However when you get into the "special NCF properties" it's a totally different thing. I particularly liked the following part - taken verbatim from the Furutech marketing (under "Features"):

So non-conductive and "transforms" heat into... heat. WOW... totally worth the ludicrous price tag for some carbon injected plastic and cheap aluminum hardware.

it converts thermal energy into far infrared.

That's just a black heatsink, isn't it?