wild imaginations, just what is the point and what are these people trying to achieve? fixing a problem that isn't even there?

I present to you, NuForce magic Boxes,

Inside you''ll find some little under paid fairies working extremely hard for their living.

http://www.stereotimes.com/acc042610.shtml

Saw the word 'Quantum'. Stopped at that point.

I imagine it encourages Tau-muons to change their angle of charm. This naturally excites the NS5-brane, polytransformates the nearest multiverse quantum doorway, while disentangling omichron particles thanks to a chronatonic wave formation produced by simply plugging this thing in.

The result, of course, is increased transparency, better dynamics and wider soundstaging. If you plug it in backwards, though, you risk destroying the universe.

So be careful.

I should build my own magic box. I'll call it the Audio Refining System Enhancer, I'll charge $1,000 and I'll sell a bunch of them. I've always wanted to make a grand selling a bunch of A.R.S.E.

I like this mans style

Here is another little must have pearl to lighten your wallet.


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I'm really surprised by this from NuForce, I ask myself why? they have no need a just seem to be churning out products for products sake, I'd expect something a little bit better. They started out with class D based amplifiers that had a few problems but the later versions are supposedly very good, but of late they have for some unfathomable reason also rebranded an oppo blu ray player, but why? do they really need to go down that road? Also they have headphones, servers and now the really low point for NuForce, this, why don't they just stick to what they are good at, I see no need for them the get involved in these style of products.

Are people that easily forgot?

Fnuckle - I'll review it... for the usual consideration of course....

You can't know something won't work until you've tried it. Maybe it's pseudo-science, maybe it's actual science, maybe it's all conjecture, but until you've tried it there is no point at all in poo-pooing it.

Note: Not a NuForce dealer, and not a fan of their products, but I dislike it when people dismiss products out of hand because 'it can't possibly work'.

Of course, the electronics industry, like any other, is full of new buzzwords. Everybody and their dog are looking for the next best thing. And it usually turns out that few, if any, of the current crop ever make it big, rather something else altogether creeps out of the shadows and makes a big bang.

And all too often, it goes in circles. Some things we had disappear, only to resurface in a new guise some years, decades even, in a new suit and be hailed as the next best thing. Case in point - integrated power amplifier voltage gain stage.

Many years ago, National Sermiconductor had an idea. Why force designers to design new power amplifier gain and protection stages every time around, why not make an integrated circuit (IC) which will have all that built in and be very programmable, so as not to spoil the individuality of each designer? So, in the late 70-ies, they introduced LM 391N-xxx, where "xxx" denoted the maximum operating voltage, this being 60, 80 or 100 Volts. They also provided very detailed instruction for its use, for example, in their 1980 publication AUDIO/RADIO HANDBOOK, they provide specific examples and all the necessary maths for any audio buff, let alone professional engineers, to design their own power amps in a wide range of outputs.

Having done that, I can attest to the fact that this worked very, VERY well indeed. Yet, the chip was gone from the catalog a few years later, for lack of general interest. I think that was because it came too early for its own good.

And it resurfaced in anew guise, as LME 49811, and in two guises, one for bipolar, and the other for MOSFET output power stages (LME 49830). Much more flexible, double the current drive from before, incomparably lower distortion, etc. It DIDN'T come as a buzzword, rather it came quitely, but it is already beginning to change the shape of the audio industry. It's simple to use, it's versatile (up to +/- 100V!), it has the required protection ciruits (fully programmable) and it's cheap.

My point being that in many cases, products and technologies arrive with no buzzwords and get down to it, while everybody is investigating the buzzords, most of which will not have the same impact despite the fame. Buzzwords are like mountain streams, fast and furious, but often small, but there are also wide, slow plains rivers, and it's often these that carry all the silt.