Nuforce v2: has anyone tried them

Vic,

The turn-on/off relays have a minor low-level click to them if that is what you mean -- but it's so low in level that I can't see anyone objecting to it. Since you own the 9SE's already, the upgrade to V2 is highly recommended. Jason at NuForce believes that the standard Ref 9 V2 sounds better than the original Ref 9SE, FWIW.

NuForce is using a Zobel network on the outputs now that shouldn't be tampered with, but seems to work much better than the old parallel capacitor.

hello Plato and thanks for your impressions of V-2, i have the cap cut on my SEs like it better that way. but from what you are saying nuforce has done some work on that as well. along with the V-2 upgrade it sounds pretty much a no brainer to get the upgrade. i have a week vacation planed, when i went from ref 9 to SE nuforce had them back in town in less than a week. going to schedule thanks again.

That sounds like a good plan Stltrains. Yes, from what I'm hearing, it's a no-brainer. The new version definitely beats the original even with the caps cut out, which is the way I was using them.

Thanks for the replies,
I went to audition the Ref9 SE v2 yesterday and I was extremely impressed: the best, tighest bass I have ever heard, great transparency and detail, really nice midrange and most of all extremely involving.
I bought them them immediately, did not even bother trying the ref9 or ref8. I can't wait to try them with my speakers

I got my review Ref 9 SE V2 last week and after some warm up, etc gave them a good listen over the weekend...I am very very impressed.

All reservations I had for Class D in general and specific to the NuForce are gone. The mids are sweetened up to the right balance and the tweeters on my Parsifal Ovations sound like they are ribbons.

All I can say is WOW! This is no marginal improvement. Look for my review at www.positive-feedback.com (along with Bob Levi's) within the coming weeks.