NuForce Icon will be available for sale on Amazon.com after April 25. They say is an affordable unit (more or less US$200) Class D amp.

http://www.nuforce-icon.com/ They look fantastic.

NuForce is a branch of NPhysics, a Company which holds several international patents in electronics and digital control applications in particular. The mind behind NPhysics and NuForce is Tranh Nguyen, former chief engineer of the Tomahawk cruise missile power system, now chief technical officer at NuForce.


The NuForce Team: Tranh Nguyen, on the left; Casey Ng and Jason Lim.

i'm kind of a nut for these things .. i've got the original Sonic Impact T-amp, the Super T and the Trends Audio TA-10.1 so chances are i'll get one of these just to try out as well.

Me either. As you know i have the Super T and i'm very pleased with it.
If i had the money i'd like to buy those NuForce mono Class D mono amps they have.

Thinking all Class D amplifiers equal would be a big mistake and a pure technical nonsense...since no serious audiophile worth his weight in toroidal transformers would ever claim all Class AB amps are equal. The "Class" of an amplifier just grossly indicates the technology in use...but says NOTHING on the quality of the component.

From the product description of this little unit, it's incredible what we can get with $200 nowadays...


1) As the core of a desktop audio system, the Icon connects to an Ipod, CD player, PC or Mac.

2) Via jitter-free USB technology, the Icon operates as a USB DAC for converting a PC or Mac's audio signal to high-quality analog sound.

3) For optimal headphone performance, the Icon includes a discrete, high-performance headphone amplifier.

4) For operation as an audiophile-grade preamplifier, the Icon's linestage can be connected to a power amp or active speakers.

5) As a high-quality auxiliary power amp in a surround-sound setup, the Icon can be used to drive tweeters or rear-channel speakers.


It seems that Mr.Tranh Nguyen doesn't spend his time only between rockets and audio but also in Solar energie inventions:

http://guntherportfolio.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html

Try to find the logo below, and you'll find out what this man is doing; and you might see audio and solar energie are not so far from each other has it seems...

I just ordered today at Amazon the NuForce Icon. I don't know if it is better than my modded Super T-Amp, nevertheless with all the characteristics i'd mention above i can't let go this baby at 130,00 €.

Because Amazon have sold out, at that time, all the Icon they have i ordered the NuForce amp at http://www.audioaffair.co.uk/.
Well after two months of waiting, i came to a conclusion:

These guys : http://www.audioaffair.co.uk/ SUCKS, BIG TIME!

bummer, did you at least get your money back?

Nope. , But i still have a small hope that everything turn out fine... From what i know some of this web companies put their items in the their web sites and only after they have a certain amount of orders, only then they ordered to the main company somewhere over China or Taiwan...and it takes time...i really don't know if this is true or not...i have a feedback from a guy in another forum about this issue. So, let's wait and see wht happens........................................................I am starting to lose my patience about these guys. Two months is a long time.