Furutech NCF Clear Line-EU AC Power Optimizer

Description

The Furutech NCF Clear Line-EU AC Power Optimizer is an advanced power conditioning device designed to enhance the performance of your audio and video equipment by reducing electrical noise and improving the quality of the AC power supply. This plug-in optimizer is engineered with Furutech’s proprietary Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) technology and is tailored for use with European (EU) AC outlets, making it a versatile and valuable addition to any high-end audio or home theater system.

Introduction

The quality of the power supply is a critical factor in determining the performance of audio and video systems. Even the most sophisticated equipment can be hampered by noise, interference, and voltage fluctuations from the AC power line. The Furutech NCF Clear Line-EU AC Power Optimizer addresses these issues by conditioning the power supply, resulting in enhanced clarity, detail, and dynamics for your audio and video setup.

Key Features

1. Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) Technology

   • The NCF technology is at the heart of the Clear Line’s performance. It combines two active materials that generate negative ions to eliminate static and convert thermal energy into far-infrared radiation. This results in significant noise reduction, improved signal purity, and enhanced overall system performance.

2. Plug-and-Play Design

   • The NCF Clear Line-EU is incredibly easy to use. Simply plug it into any open Schuko socket, power distributor, or power conditioner, and it immediately starts working to optimize your AC power. This makes it a convenient solution for improving power quality without the need for complicated installation.

3. Gold-Plated Conductors

   • The internal components of the Clear Line feature high-quality, gold-plated conductors that offer superior conductivity and resistance to corrosion. This ensures reliable, long-term performance and minimizes signal loss or degradation.

4. Anti-Resonance Housing

   • The body of the NCF Clear Line is designed to minimize vibration and resonance, which can introduce noise and distortion into your system. The housing features Furutech’s special damping materials that help maintain a stable, clean signal path.

5. Compatibility

   • The NCF Clear Line-EU is designed to work with European AC power outlets (230V), making it an ideal choice for users in the EU. It can be used with a wide range of audio and video equipment, including amplifiers, DACs, CD players, turntables, AV receivers, and more.

Benefits

• Enhanced Audio Quality: By reducing noise and interference, the NCF Clear Line improves the clarity, detail, and dynamics of your audio system. You’ll experience a more refined and natural soundstage, with tighter bass, clearer mids, and more transparent highs.
• Improved Video Performance: For home theater systems, the cleaner power supply results in sharper images, better color accuracy, and reduced visual noise.
• Easy Integration: The plug-and-play design means you can enjoy the benefits of cleaner power with minimal effort, making it a hassle-free upgrade for your system.
• Static Charge Reduction: The NCF technology helps eliminate static charges that can affect audio and video performance, ensuring a smoother, more stable signal.

Ideal for Audiophiles and Home Theater Enthusiasts

The Furutech NCF Clear Line-EU AC Power Optimizer is perfect for:

• Audiophiles: Seeking to enhance the performance of their high-end audio systems by reducing noise and interference.
• Home Theater Enthusiasts: Who want to achieve the best possible picture and sound quality from their video systems.
• Professional Installers: Looking for a reliable and effective way to optimize the power supply for clients’ audio and video setups.

How to Use

1. Identify an Open Socket: Find an available Schuko outlet in your power distributor, power conditioner, or wall socket.
2. Plug in the NCF Clear Line: Simply insert the device into the socket. The Clear Line immediately starts conditioning the power supply, with no additional setup required.
3. Enjoy Enhanced Performance: Experience improved audio and video quality as the NCF technology reduces noise and interference.

Technical Specifications

• Technology: Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) for noise reduction and static elimination
• Connection: Schuko (EU) plug type, compatible with 230V power systems
• Material: High-quality, gold-plated conductors and anti-resonance housing
• Dimensions: Compact and lightweight, allowing for easy integration into any audio or video setup

Maintenance Tips

• Regular Position Check: Ensure the NCF Clear Line is securely plugged into the outlet for optimal performance.
• Keep It Clean: Wipe the device with a soft, dry cloth to prevent dust buildup, which could impact its performance.

The Furutech NCF Clear Line-EU AC Power Optimizer is a highly effective solution for improving the quality of your power supply, making it an essential accessory for anyone serious about achieving the best possible audio and video performance. Its advanced NCF technology, combined with a user-friendly plug-and-play design, ensures that you can experience cleaner, more stable power with minimal effort.

By eliminating noise, reducing static, and providing a purer signal path, the NCF Clear Line-EU allows your audio and video equipment to operate at its full potential, resulting in a noticeable improvement in clarity, detail, and overall fidelity. Whether you’re an audiophile, home theater enthusiast, or professional installer, the Furutech NCF Clear Line-EU is a worthwhile investment that brings a significant upgrade to your system’s performance.

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NCF Clear Line
AC Power Supply Optimizer

FEATURES
It takes just a moment to hear the difference that Furutech’s NCF Clear Line can make to your audio or video system.
Why just a moment?
Furutech’s Nano Crystal² Formula, also known as NCF, has resulted in a number of truly innovative and effective products over the past few years. NCF features a special crystalline material that has two distinct properties—it generates negative ions that eliminate static, and it converts thermal energy into far infrared.
When combined with nano-sized ceramic particles and carbon powder, these crystals become the ultimate electrical and mechanical damping material. Created by Furutech, NCF is found exclusively in Furutech products and nowhere else.
Now, Furutech has introduced perhaps the simplest way to implement NCF technology into your home—NCF Clear Line.
NCF Clear Line is an audio grade passive AC optimizer, small enough to hold in your hand, that instantly enhances the quality of your power supply. Simply plug the NCF Clear Line into any vacant receptacle on either a power distributor or wall outlet. For best effect, use the NCF Clear Line on the same AC line/supply as your system, preferably at a receptacle adjacent to your system.
It only takes a moment to hear the improvement in the sound. You won’t have to switch back and forth repeatedly in order to “discover” an improvement. It’s right there.
You’ll immediately notice improvements in the depth and focus of the sound stage, harmonics and tonal balance with NCF. Low frequencies are cleaner, with a greater sense of definition made possible by a lowered noise floor.
Then unplug the NCF Clear Line from the power receptacle. You’ll immediately miss those sonic improvements. You’ll want them back.
In home theater applications, you will also hear these same distinct results. Just as importantly, you’ll see the difference in your video quality. All you need to do is plug the NCF Clear Line into your home entertainment system and the improvements will be instantly noticeable.
Sharper. Clearer. Yet more natural and easy on the eyes.
It only takes a moment to take your listening or viewing experience to the next level with Furutech’s NCF Clear Line. Find out for yourself.
– Improves resolution, focus and 3-dimensionality of performance
– Eliminates noise increasing signal to noise ratio boosting information and detail in sound reproduction
– Improves resolution, depth and dynamism of images and video
– Multi-material hybrid construction: Carbon fiber housing (shell) with superior resonance damping properties
– All conductor parts rhodium plated and treated with Furutech’s Alpha Process
Furutech’s Two-Stage Cryogenic and Demagnetization Alpha Process
Using cutting-edge technology and materials, Furutech developed a low-temperature two-stage process that significantly improves every facet of audio and video performance.
The treatment begins during the manufacturing process with a deep, conditioning cryogenic freeze of all metal parts. Using high-end refrigerants — liquid N2 or He — Furutech achieves temperatures of between -196 to -250℃. The treated parts change their molecular structure at these extremes of temperature, relieving internal stress. The molecules bond together more tightly and the overall structure becomes more stable. This improves electrical conductivity and therefore power and signal transfer.
Step two in the Alpha Process exposes these same parts to the patented Ring Demagnetization treatment. Ordinary high-power magnets used for this purpose often increase magnetic effects; they leave some areas more magnetized than others. This patented process uses controlled attenuation to completely eliminate magnetization for more vivid and colorful improvements to sound and picture quality. Ring Demagnetization further enhances conductivity of all treated materials.
ALL metallic parts used in Furutech products go through the Alpha Process treatment to keep all connectors, conductors, and metal parts in a perfect stress-free, stable, and highly conductive state.

How it works:

The NCF Clear Line is an entirely passive device that does not interfere with current (no circuit is formed between L & N) and it has no form of circuit filter inside.
What you hear is the NCF effect. The NCF Clear Line eliminates electrical and mechanical resonance from power outlet sockets and power conductors with Furutech’s NCF (anti-static and resonance damping material) and with the help of NCF Clear Line’s Air Coils which damp and eliminate vibrations emanating from the power socket outlet electrodes.
The NCF material and the NCF line up of products are the cumulative result of Furutech’s 30 plus year efforts to help their customers understand the negative effects of signal and power conductor resonance on playback quality and to offer solutions to eliminate such resonance.

SPECIFICATIONS
Technologies:
1. The NCF Clear Line body is formed with nylon and glass fiber incorporating nano-sized ceramic particles and carbon powder for their additional “Piezo Effect” damping properties. As well as Furutech’s NCF (Nano Crystal² Formula) which eliminates static, “interconverts” thermal, mechanical, and electrical energy and damps vibrations.
2. Furutech’s NCF Clear Line utilizes enameled “α(Alpha)-OCC Air Coil” passive wire coils to improve power quality and system sound performance by eliminating radiated resonance from power electrodes. Each α(Alpha)-OCC Air Coil in the NCF Clear Line has been designed to complement the performance enhancing characteristics of Furutech’s unique NCF (Nano Crystal Formula) anti-static and resonance damping material. The results, Furutech’s NCF Clear Line will eliminate noise, remove static and improve the overall quality of your power, taking the performance of your system to the next level. (Passive: N & L poles are not connected and do not form a circuit)
3. The NCF Clear Line body and housing are secured with special T10 tamper-proof stainless-steel screws and washers. Factory tightened to the optimal torque value for best sound performance.
4. The NCF Clear Line housing lining ring has been formed from special resonance damping Nylon and Furutech’s NCF material and the barrel housing constructed of 4 layers of Furutech’s hybrid NCF carbon fiber
5. The internal air chamber is pressure sealed to for additional damping effects
6. The NCF End Cover is formed from special heat resistant nylon and Furutech ‘s NCF material with molded channels to increase the surface area of the NCF material by 76% for improved effectiveness – ultimate resonance damping for improved tonal balance.

Features:
1. NCF Body (multi-material hybrid structure): NCF formulated nylon resin
2. Coils: α (Alpha) Pure-Copper Rhodium-plated Conductor electrode contacts (L & N not connected – no circuit formed) and passive “Air Coils” constructed with α(Alpha)-OCC enameled wire coated a silver color resonance damping material.
3. The special T10 tamper-proof stainless steel self-tapping screws and washers
4. Housing: 4-layer hybrid NCF carbon housing composed of an outer hard clear coat over a NCF textured carbon fiber
particle composite layer with another layer of NCF and 3K carbon fiber layer beneath that. Inner surface is NCF Nylon
insulation. The best of damping and insulation materials improve frequency extension and tonal balance.
5. The internal air chamber is pressure sealed to for additional damping effects.
6. NCF End Cover (multi-material hybrid structure): Anti-static and resonance suppressing qualities with molded channels to
increase the surface area of the NCF material by 76% for improved effectiveness – ultimate resonance damping for
improved tonal balance.

Enhance the clarity of musical performance and stereoscopic sound field.
Eliminates noise increasing signal to noise ratio boosting information and detail in sound reproduction
Improve the depth of the picture and improve three-dimensionality and dynamism of video playback.
Multi-material hybrid construction: Carbon fiber housing (shell) with superior resonance damping properties.
All conductive parts are rhodium plated and have undergone the Alpha Process.

Specifications
Outward size: L 88.4 X W39.5 mm approx.
Net Weight: 69 g approx.
Suggested burn in time 24 hrs.

※The pattern for each NCF Clear Line housing (shell) is different. The unique pattern is due to the texture of the composite carbon fiber material used in its construction. The pattern has no impact on the performance of the product.