Please let us know how you like the NuForce amps. After reading a bunch of reviews, I'm very intrigued by them. Them seem like they might be a great match to the Squeezebox.
Anyway as far as the noise you are hearing check out this from the NuForce website: http://www.nuforce.com/faq/faq-noise.htm Noise and other peculiarities of NuForce amplifiers Why does NuForce have low audible noise when the amplifier is idling (no input signal)? NuForce amplifier has SNR (Signal To Noise Ratio) of 120db (at 100W) so it is exceptionally quiet when playing music. NuForce's feedback and control system runs at 1MHz and actively performs noise cancellation in real time (comparing noise with music signal) at every switching cycle. But when there is no input signal, it merely amplifies noise in the system and therefore you can hear hissing noise from up to 1 ft away from the speaker. When the source device (Preamp or CD player) is turned off, it acts as a noise receiver/transmitter and could generate even more noise for NuForce amplifier during idling time. -- jwiederhold ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jwiederhold's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2459 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
