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Not Another NuForce thread......

Ok, first I am not shill or related to, or affiliated with NuForce in any way...I just thought that we should have a thread to discuss the V2...

I just placed the Reference 9 SE "V2" in my system after living with the NuForce 9 SE for the past year and auditioning the Reference 9 V2 for the past 2 months...

I am putting out there for comment and debate that the Reference 9 SE V2 is one of the top 5 best amplifiers out there and currently available. (I personally think that it one of the top 3, but I am leaving room for argument)

Sitting in my room last night I was reminded of one of those transforming audio experiences. My first ones was couple of hours with the Sinus Faber Amati Homage pushed with a full compliment of the top of the line ML gear all with in a perfectly treated room....My experience with the Reference 9 SE V2 was like that...

Please comment if you are able on the V2 in general, what was your experience?? Are your thought of the Reference 9 SE V2 the same??
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viclondon
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jb8312,
Nuforce is an extremely revealing amp; it cannot compensate for poor recordings. If there was an amp that could make "Californication" sound properly million of people would buy it...
NF amps are also extremely fussy about all the ancillary equipment. Yesterday I was contacted by a member of a UK forum who was curious abut the NF, as he wanted a summer amp to get besides his McIntosh 275; he asked me to come to an audition. We spent a few hours of good time listening and we did some cable swapping. The differences we heard were very noticeable to say the least.
I was a bit nervous about his judgment because my rig is totally American:
Opus 21>NF ref9SE v2>gallo ref3II
so the sound of my rig is very, very lively, the way I like it, but totally different from the general British sound, very polite (always please and thank you) and laid back. To make a long story short, the next day he went all the way to the NuForce dealer and not just for the summer, but for all seasons...
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drubin
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First of all Audiofeil has listed and still lists Nuforce on his website and now says: that Nuforce amplifiers are over priced, and under performing and now all of a sudden he is not carrying them.
Go back and read his entire post. I think he was referring to ARC when he made those comments, though it confused me at first, too.
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
Yes Drubin I was referring to ARC. Some people can't read or tell the truth because they are too consumed with self promotion.

They know who they are.

Thank you,
Bill Feil
audiofeil
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Oracle,
This "old fool" forgot more than you'll ever know about audio.
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9rw
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Viclondon: Who pulled your bloody chain? Stay on your side of the ocean -- where you belong. We won our independence hundreds of years ago. I respond to people in kind.

I was just trying to find out how many iterations of this amp there have been and in what time span. No one has provided that information. Could it be that it's embarrassing to the company? I am certainly not the only one who has made this observation.

Audiooracle: Here we go again. How about naming those amps that NuFarce is beating? Guidocorona has asked dealers to do that. It shouldn't be so difficult to comply.
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