jrdg concerto vs nuforce 9.02

Ozzy62,
bulls-eye!

@Bombaywalla
ha, ha...can you explain?

Ozzy62, I was switching cables around on the nuforce amps and found that the heavier guage copper brought out more fullness in the mid bass and did not lose too much in the highs. The amps do sound lean in the mid bass with light guage silver but open up a little more. I think with these amps, having a copper and silver mix cable design using maybe 8-10 awg could be a great match. Now that I know what lean sounding really means I will be looking for cables that are a heavier guage. I liked what I heard with the copper.

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 something good happening. So I played around with the Ref 8 and more or less came up with the same mods as Nuforce did in the Ref 8.02. The sound was so good I sold the Rowlands and ordered a pair of Ref 9.02s. So if it was me, it would be the Nuforce not the Rowland. It is hard to describe but there is something that sounds more real, more truly transparent to the original event about the Nuforce. Both the Rowland and the Nuforce do similar things, but I reckon the Nuforce just does it better.