Furutech launches new high

LAN-8 NCF category 8 cable intended for Ethernet and other high speed signal transfer applications

By Rob Lane

Furutech's new LAN-8 NCF category 8 cable Ethernet cable features a connector shell incorporating the company's own Nano Crystal² Formula (NCF). NCF uses a special crystalline material that has two ‘active’ properties: it generates negative ions that eliminate static, and converts thermal energy into far infrared. Furutech combines this 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", according to Furutech, delivering improvements in the depth and focus of the audio soundstage, harmonics and tonal balance. Low frequencies are cleaner, with a greater sense of definition made possible by a lowered noise floor.

The LAN-8 NCF also features improved specifications for crosstalk and system noise when compared with a Category 7 cable. This is achieved through a combination of a ‘twisted pair’ design with an increased number of twists per unit length, plus additional shielding for each individual wire pair and for the cable as a whole.

All metal parts are treated with Furutech's trademark two-stage ‘Alpha’ cryogenic and demagnetisation process, designed to render the metal stress-free, stable and highly electrically conductive, and said to enable that all-important Furutech goal of ‘pure transmission’.

Rob Lane

Rob has been writing about AV (pro and consumer) for more years than he cares to remember, editing a number of well known CE mags through the ’90s and ’00s, launching his own residential AV trade title in time for the very first ISE, and running Bigger Boat PR from 2009, while continuing to write for leading AV B2B publications in the UK and US. He joined Installation as editor in 2020.

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