Furutech FI-E50 NCF(R) High End Performance Schuko Connector

Description

The Furutech FI-E50 NCF(R) High-End Performance Schuko Connector is an advanced, premium power connector designed to deliver exceptionally clean, stable, and interference-free power to high-performance audio and video systems. Furutech has incorporated its cutting-edge Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) technology and rhodium-plated contacts, making this Schuko connector ideal for audiophiles and professionals seeking the highest level of power delivery to their sensitive equipment. The FI-E50 NCF(R) is engineered to minimize electrical noise, reduce resonance, and optimize system performance.

• Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF): Furutech’s proprietary NCF technology combines nano-sized crystalline particles, ceramic powder, and carbon powder. This formula generates negative ions that eliminate static, while its crystalline structure converts thermal and mechanical energy into far-infrared energy, reducing electrical noise and mechanical vibration for a cleaner power signal.
• Rhodium-Plated Contacts: The FI-E50 NCF(R) features rhodium-plated contacts, which provide superior conductivity and long-term resistance to oxidation and corrosion. Rhodium ensures minimal signal degradation over time, offering consistent 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 ensures minimal power loss and stable, clean power transmission to high-performance audio and video systems.
• Carbon Fiber and Non-Magnetic Stainless-Steel Housing: The connector’s housing is made of carbon fiber and non-magnetic stainless steel, which helps reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) and mechanical resonance. This ensures a clean, interference-free power signal, enhancing the performance of connected equipment.
• 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, further improving system performance.
• Schuko Connector: The Schuko design is commonly used in European power systems and provides a secure and stable connection to Schuko-style power plugs. The FI-E50 NCF(R) ensures a tight fit and reliable power delivery to high-end audio and video equipment.

Performance Benefits:

• Clean and Stable Power Delivery: The combination of NCF technology, rhodium-plated contacts, and high-purity α (Alpha) OCC copper conductors ensures superior power transmission, reducing signal degradation and interference. This cleaner power improves system performance, resulting in clearer audio, more dynamic range, and enhanced video quality.
• Reduced Electrical Noise and Resonance: The Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) helps eliminate static, reduce electrical noise, and minimize mechanical vibrations, delivering a cleaner power signal. This enhances sound clarity, accuracy, and imaging, while improving video performance with sharper visuals.
• Long-Term Durability: The rhodium-plated contacts provide excellent resistance to oxidation and corrosion, ensuring long-lasting, reliable performance even with continuous use. The robust carbon fiber and stainless-steel construction further enhances the durability of the FI-E50 NCF(R).
• Improved System Performance: By delivering clean, stable, and interference-free power, the FI-E50 NCF(R) significantly improves the performance of high-end audio and video systems, resulting in more accurate sound reproduction, greater dynamics, and superior visual clarity.

Ideal Applications:

• High-End Audio Systems: Perfect for audiophiles looking 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 like recording studios, where clean, interference-free power is critical for achieving high-quality sound production.
• Home Theater Systems: Ideal for home theater setups where stable power delivery to projectors, high-definition TVs, and home theater audio systems is crucial for achieving the best sound and video performance.

The Furutech FI-E50 NCF(R) High-End Performance Schuko Connector is designed to deliver the cleanest, most stable, and interference-free power to high-performance audio and video systems. Featuring Furutech’s advanced Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF) technology, rhodium-plated contacts, and high-purity α (Alpha) OCC copper conductors, the FI-E50 NCF(R) ensures superior power transmission, reducing noise and enhancing both sound and visual clarity. Whether you are upgrading a high-end audio system, professional studio, or home theater, the FI-E50 NCF(R) provides exceptional performance and long-term reliability, making it an essential component for achieving high-fidelity sound and video quality.

RATING
FI-E50 NCF – Rating: 16A 250V AC

FEATURES
NCF Piezo Ceramic Series Connectors • A Furutech First!
Furutech’s Pure Transmission FI-E50 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, Piezo Ceramic and Carbon Powder
Nano Crystal² Formula — NCF Powder is 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, which makes it the ultimate electrical and mechanical damping material.

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 SCHUKO Power Connectors.
The Earth/Ground Jumper System Carries US Patent No. 6,669,491/European Patent No. EP1445837

SPECIFICATIONS
• α (Alpha) Pure-Copper Rhodium-plated main Conductor
• Earth (Ground) Jumper System (US Patent No.: 6,669,491/ European Patent No. 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: Body length 55.4mm x 39.5mm diameter / 93.2mm overall length
• Metal cable clamp improves grip and reduces mechanically and electrically induced distortion