Review by phil gold i ve had little use of high end digital cables until quite recently a long string of cd players from denon meridian and several from emm labs were all one box affairs put a silver disc in slot a take analog balanced output at the other end.
Nordost heimdall usb cable review.
Love to hear any comments or reviews.
Nordost valhalla 2 usb 2 0 cable review plus a quick test of nordost s heimdall 2 ethernet cable.
The small amounts of cables are bundled in a thick red rubber jacket that is translucent enough to peak inside.
Just a heads up for the nordost crowd.
The most interesting measurement of all.
The norse series of cables from nordost comprising heimdall frey and tyr were next followed more recently by valhalla 2 which will be the subject of a later review.
For this review i m focusing on nordost s speaker and headphone cables.
Red dawn speaker cables run 1 040 for a 2.
For the purposes of this review nordost provided me with a complete loom of their heimdall 2 cables that included.
The only other usb cable is from their leif series the blue heaven.
The headphone cable came from their heimdall 2 collection that is part of their norse 2 classification.
Sitting below the reference valhalla v2 and the odin übercables the norse series is still reassuringly expensive and very high performance but in high end.
The cable is 2m long and will be a bit longer if using an adapter.
The speaker cables reviewed were 2m heimdalls with spades on the source end to suit my lamm monoblocks and the excellent nordost z plugs a number of which i bought years ago for installing on my other cables at the loudspeaker end.
The remaining cables came from other nordost families.
The usb digital and hdmi cables were part of nordost s blue heaven collection within the same leif class of products.
Dennis bonotto new international sales manager for nordost joined the company s michael taylor to introduce nordost s new top usb cable the valhalla 2 usb 3500 1m.
I used 1m and 1 5m samples of the heimdall interconnect for my source components.
Nordost branded heat shrink keeps everything looking smart but the logos have faded in the year of using the cable.
Those are savings of 78 and 85 respectively.
The heimdall interconnect is 600 1m pair the valhalla version going for 4000.
A single pair of 4m speaker cables with banana plugs 2 709 99 pair a couple sets of 1m rca xlr interconnects 939 99 pair a 1 5m heimdall 2 digital s pdif bnc rca interconnect 889 99 each a couple 2m power cords 839.
The new cable so new that it s not even listed on the sign behind dennis departs from the company s heimdall 2 and tyr 2 usb cables by using silver plated solid core conductors in a twin axial configuration and terminating.
The nordost heimdall 2 cable is 2 meters long for 799.
These satisfied about 80 percent of my requirements for the review.
