Furutech FI-50 NCF(R) High End Performance C13 IEC connector

Description

The Furutech FI-50 NCF(R) High-End Performance C13 IEC Connector is a top-tier power connector designed to deliver exceptionally clean, stable, and interference-free power to high-performance audio and video systems. It incorporates Furutech’s advanced Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) technology and rhodium-plated contacts, ensuring optimal power transmission and minimal signal degradation. This premium C13 connector is ideal for audiophiles and professionals who require the highest level of power delivery to their sensitive equipment, enhancing the overall system performance by reducing electrical noise and resonance.

• Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF): The FI-50 NCF(R) utilizes Furutech’s proprietary NCF technology, which integrates nano-sized crystalline particles, ceramic powder, and carbon powder. This unique formula generates negative ions that eliminate static and convert mechanical and thermal energy into far-infrared energy, significantly reducing electrical noise and mechanical vibration for a cleaner power signal.
• Rhodium-Plated Contacts: The contacts are rhodium-plated, providing superior conductivity and excellent resistance to oxidation and corrosion. Rhodium ensures long-term durability and minimal signal degradation, offering stable and high-quality power transmission to connected devices.
• High-Purity α (Alpha) OCC Copper Conductors: The internal conductors are made from α (Alpha) OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) copper, known for its exceptional purity and superior conductivity. This allows for minimal signal loss, ensuring clean and efficient power transmission to high-performance audio and video systems.
• Carbon Fiber and Stainless-Steel Housing: The connector’s body is made from a carbon fiber and non-magnetic stainless-steel composite, which helps reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) and mechanical resonance. This construction ensures a stable and interference-free power signal, contributing to better sound and video clarity.
• Floating Field Damper System: Furutech’s Floating Field Damper System reduces both mechanical and electrical distortion, ensuring a cleaner and more stable power signal. This system minimizes unwanted vibrations and interference, enhancing the performance of connected devices.

Performance Benefits:

• Cleaner and More Stable Power: The combination of NCF technology, rhodium-plated contacts, and high-purity α (Alpha) OCC copper conductors ensures minimal signal degradation and interference. This leads to enhanced performance of high-end audio systems with clearer sound, better dynamics, and more detailed imaging.
• Reduced Noise and Resonance: The Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) helps reduce electrical noise and mechanical vibration, delivering a cleaner power signal. This improves the clarity, accuracy, and depth of sound in high-end audio systems and enhances video performance in connected systems.
• Long-Term Durability: The rhodium-plated contacts provide excellent resistance to corrosion and oxidation, ensuring long-lasting, reliable performance even with continuous use. The robust carbon fiber and stainless-steel construction further enhances the connector’s durability.
• Improved System Performance: By delivering clean, stable, and interference-free power, the FI-50 NCF(R) significantly improves the overall performance of high-end audio and video systems, resulting in more accurate sound reproduction, greater dynamic range, and enhanced visual clarity.

Ideal Applications:

• High-End Audio Systems: Ideal for audiophiles looking to deliver clean, stable power to high-performance components such as amplifiers, DACs, preamps, and high-fidelity speakers, ensuring optimal sound quality.
• Professional Audio Studios: Suitable for professional environments where clean, interference-free power is crucial for achieving high-quality sound production and precision.
• Home Theater Systems: Perfect for home theater setups where stable power delivery to projectors, high-definition TVs, and high-performance audio systems is necessary for achieving the best sound and picture quality.

The Furutech FI-50 NCF(R) High-End Performance C13 IEC Connector is engineered to deliver the cleanest, most stable, and interference-free power to high-performance audio and video systems. Featuring Furutech’s Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) technology, rhodium-plated contacts, and high-purity α (Alpha) OCC copper conductors, the FI-50 NCF(R) ensures superior power transmission while reducing noise and resonance. Whether you’re upgrading a high-end audio system, professional studio, or home theater setup, the FI-50 NCF(R) provides exceptional performance, long-term reliability, and an unmatched level of power purity, making it a must-have for achieving high-fidelity sound and video quality.

RATING
FI-50 NCF—15A 125V /10A 250V AC

FEATURES
NCF Piezo Ceramic Series Connectors
• A Furutech First!
Furutech’s Pure Transmission FI-50 NCF Piezo Ceramic series connector bodies and housings feature several breakthrough construction techniques.
A multilayer nonmagnetic stainless steel and silver plated carbon fiber shell incorporates a special damping and insulating acetal copolymer. Furutech settled on stainless and silver plated carbon fiber for the outer housing after extensive listening sessions with Japanese industry figures and audiophiles.

The body of the connectors incorporates an “active” damping material: Nano Crystal² Formula – Nano Crystalline, Ceramic and Carbon Powder
Incorporated into select Furutech products, Nano Crystal² Formula — NCF is comprised of a special crystalline material that has two “active” properties. First, it generates negative ions that eliminate static and secondly, it converts thermal energy into far-infrared. Furutech then combines this remarkable crystalline material with nano-sized ceramic particles and carbon powder for their additional “Piezo Effect” damping properties. The resulting Nano Crystal² Formula is the ultimate electrical and mechanical damping material – only found in Furutech products!
Nano Crystal² Formula eliminates static, “interconverts” thermal, mechanical and electrical energy and damps vibrations—all for the finest Furutech Pure Transmission signal imaginable.

Floating Magnetic Field Effects
The Furutech Earth/Ground Jumper System
How far will Furutech’s engineers go in their attempts to reach Pure Transmission reference quality? Their concentrated examination of each and every element of signal transfer has resulted in another breakthrough technology, the Furutech Earth/Ground Jumper System. It eliminates EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) induced in metal parts like connector housing screws.

Current flowing through the power connector creates a magnetic field, just as an insulated conductor creates both electromagnetic and electrostatic fields. Furutech engineers found this magnetic field induces current flow (and a small magnetic field) in the screws holding the connector together! These magnetic fields interfere with the larger magnetic field around the conductor and connector.

Furutech’s total attention to detail and elegant engineering neatly solves the problem. The Earth/Ground Jumper System connects the securing screws to a ground terminal within the plug completely eliminating the field disturbances they cause. The stray fields are grounded by a series of interlocking parts within the connector that attach to the ground conductor. The Jumper System is available in Furutech NEMA Power and IEC Connectors.　The Earth/Ground Jumper System Carries US Patent No. 6,669,491

SPECIFICATIONS
• α (Alpha) Pure-Copper Rhodium-plated Conductor
• Earth (Ground) Jumper System (US Patent No.: 6,669,491/European:EP1445837)
• Nylon/fiberglass body with a special anti-resonance nano-sized crystalline, piezo ceramic particles and carbon damping material
• Multilayered nonmagnetic stainless steel and silver plated carbon fiber housing incorporating an acetal copolymer. The best of damping and insulation materials improve frequency extension and tonal balance
• Specified for cable diameters from 6mm to 20mm
• Dimensions:
FI-50 NCF Body length 44mm x 34.5mm diameter / 80.3mm overall length
• Metal cable clamp improves grip and reduces mechanically and electrically induced distortion