Nuforce

Ggil, I have heard an even later version of the APL Hi-Fi Denon 3910 with Nuforce 8.02b's(with Cardas adaptors for my single-ended preamp), and I have to say that even though the APL had less than 50 hours of the 200-300 minimum burn-in, that unless you are really way up there in tube-land, that they sound fine(or better). I'm not sure, at this point, that cd's that aren't recorded in analog, to begin with, sound good. This is with little experience in this area, but I will try to update as I go along in my listening.

Very nice review in Stereotimes.com, Frank.

cheaper alternative for Nuforce, great sound for the buck:
http://www.audiomatus.com/indexang.html, possibly at least as good as belcanto or nuforce...

Pitdog75,
Any reviews out there? I tried to find complete specs but they were not on web. What associated equipment are you using with these? Did you have Nuforce before Audiomatus?
It would be absolutely amazing to me if there was another company with a better price and equal sound. I would not even consider the belcanto evo's. The bandwidth of the Nuforce and damping factor are far greater. Completely different type of power supply on the Nuforce and I dont think any other manufacturer can use it. I guess I would call them class AS for analog switching power.

Mmakshak, I tried running my Nuforce Ref. 9s single-ended (directly from my APL Denon), but I got quite a bit of noice (hum). A friend of mine also tried running his Opus CD Player direct using single-ended interconnects to my pair of Nuforce and experienced the same noise problem. So I've been running balanced cables from my APL to the Nuforce, and the noise is much lower (almost inaudible). By the way, the Nuforce (and the APL) are very revealing, so any change in cabling you will hear. Wait until your APL Denon has about 200 or more hours of burn-in. It is really a magical player. Have you tried running the APL direct to the Nuforce? Does yours have the AKM DACs? I am very happy with this combo. Now I just some room treatments to dial things in.