Furutech FI-48 NCF(R) High End Performance IEC connector

Description

The Furutech FI-48 NCF(R) High-End Performance IEC Connector is a premium-grade power connector engineered to deliver ultra-clean, stable, and interference-free power to high-performance audio and video systems. Furutech incorporates its cutting-edge Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) technology and rhodium-plated contacts, making the FI-48 NCF(R) an excellent choice for audiophiles and professionals seeking the highest level of power transmission for sensitive equipment. This connector is specifically designed to minimize electrical noise, reduce resonance, and optimize the overall system performance by ensuring a pure power supply.

• Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF): Furutech’s proprietary NCF technology combines nano-sized crystalline particles, ceramic powder, and carbon powder. This unique formula generates negative ions that eliminate static while converting mechanical and thermal energy into far-infrared energy. This results in a significant reduction of electrical noise and mechanical vibration, delivering a cleaner, more stable power signal.
• Rhodium-Plated Contacts: The FI-48 NCF(R) features rhodium-plated contacts, providing excellent conductivity, durability, and resistance to oxidation and corrosion. Rhodium ensures long-term stability and minimal signal degradation, delivering consistent, 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 ensures minimal signal loss, providing a clean and stable power supply to high-end audio and video systems.
• Carbon Fiber and Non-Magnetic Stainless-Steel Housing: The connector’s housing is crafted from carbon fiber and non-magnetic stainless steel, which helps reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) and mechanical resonance. This construction ensures that the power signal remains clean and interference-free, enhancing sound clarity and video quality.
• Floating Field Damper System: Furutech integrates its Floating Field Damper System to reduce both mechanical and electrical distortion, ensuring a cleaner and more stable power signal. This system minimizes unwanted interference and vibration, improving the performance of connected components.

Performance Benefits:

• Cleaner and More Stable Power Delivery: The combination of NCF technology, rhodium-plated contacts, and high-purity α (Alpha) OCC copper conductors ensures superior power transmission with minimal signal degradation. This cleaner power improves the performance of audio and video systems, providing clearer sound, more dynamic range, and enhanced video quality.
• Reduced Electrical Noise and Vibration: The Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) reduces both electrical noise and mechanical vibration, ensuring a more stable power signal. This improves the clarity, accuracy, and depth of sound in high-end audio systems and enhances visual performance in video components.
• Long-Term Durability: The rhodium-plated contacts provide excellent resistance to oxidation and corrosion, ensuring reliable, long-lasting performance even with continuous use. The carbon fiber and stainless-steel construction further enhances the durability of the FI-48 NCF(R).
• Enhanced System Performance: By delivering clean, interference-free power, the FI-48 NCF(R) significantly improves the performance of high-end audio and video systems, resulting in more accurate sound reproduction, greater dynamics, and superior video quality.

Ideal Applications:

• High-End Audio Systems: Ideal for audiophiles who seek to provide clean, stable power to high-performance components such as amplifiers, DACs, preamps, and high-fidelity speakers, ensuring optimal sound clarity and performance.
• Professional Audio Studios: Suitable for use in professional environments where clean, interference-free power is essential 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 audio systems is crucial for achieving superior sound and picture quality.

The Furutech FI-48 NCF(R) High-End Performance IEC Connector is designed to provide clean, stable, and interference-free power to high-end audio and video systems. With Furutech’s advanced Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) technology, rhodium-plated contacts, and high-purity α (Alpha) OCC copper conductors, the FI-48 NCF(R) ensures superior power transmission, reducing noise and resonance while improving system performance. Whether you’re upgrading a high-end audio system, professional studio, or home theater setup, the FI-48 NCF(R) offers exceptional performance and long-term reliability, making it an essential component for achieving high-fidelity sound and video quality.

RATING
15A 125V / 10A 250V AC

FEATURES
Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF)
Incorporated into selected Furutech products, NCF features a special crystalline material that has two ‘active’ properties. First, it generates negative ions that eliminate static. Second, it converts thermal energy into far infrared. Furutech combines this remarkable material with nano-sized ceramic particles and carbon powder for their additional ‘piezoelectric effect’ damping properties. The resulting Nano Crystal² Formula is the ultimate electrical and mechanical damping material. Created by Furutech, it is found exclusively in Furutech products.

The Furutech Floating Field Damper System
Magnetic Floating Field Damping Current flowing through a cable and its connector creates magnetic (and electrostatic) fields around them, building and collapsing 60 times per second in 120VAC systems. This magnetic field induces current flow– electrical potential–in small parts like the screws holding the connector shell together which have to be metal for tight clamping. The current flow in these small parts actually creates “floating” magnetic fields around them, and they interfere with the cable/connector’s larger surrounding magnetic field resulting in noise and distortion.

The Furutech Floating Field Damper solves the biggest problem you never realized you had by star grounding the metal parts in which floating magnetic fields are induced by current flow. All the various metal parts of the connector are tied together and shunt whatever electrical potentials generated to ground. This significantly lowers noise by reducing distortion for ultra-clean and stable power transfer.
US Patent No.: 6,669,491/ European: EP1445837

SPECIFICATIONS
• α (Alpha) Pure-Copper Rhodium-plated Conductor
• Floating Field Damper (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
• Beautiful polish finished Nonmagnetic SUS303 housing. The best of damping and insulation materials improve frequency extension and tonal balance.
• Specified for cable diameters from 6mm to 20mm
• Dimensions:
Body length 44mm x 34.5mm diameter / 80.3mm overall length approx.
• Metal cable clamp improves grip and reduces mechanically and electrically induced distortion
• Net Weight: 186.4g approx.