So another step in improving the product is to laser engrave the rear panel with all the relevant markings and information. Our Nord Hypex NCore NC400 and NC500 amplifiers will now look good from the back as the front. Again its a step to keep everything in house in order to minimize costs and stock holding whilst maintaining flexibility. This helps us keep costs low and ensure we always have stock of parts on hand in order to produce a finished wonderful sounding Class D Nor

So a few years ago DAC's fell out of favor, now they are everywhere with the arrival of streamed digital music. Same goes with power amplifiers, Integrated amplifiers become the fashion. With only serious Audiophiles going for the Pre-amplifier, power amplifier route. More boxes more expense and you had to buy additional cables, which ones? Now with the advent of digital music streamed, we have Streamers with DAC's and digital volume control. Even many DAC's now come with dig

Good question, I recently saw on a DIY forum folks discussing the merits of linear or SMPS for Hypex NCore based amps. First of all my view is that the best sound from Hypex NCore NC500 modules is with the recommended SMPS1200A700. A USA based company is recently offering a new range of multi channel NCore amps at around 200W per channel. A closer look at the spec sees they are using a linear PSU. So they must be NCore NC500 amp modules? Why only 200W? and why Linear PSU? Wi