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Nordost QKORE

Who else has the QKore grounding unit? I just got a QKore 6. If you are in the Nordost ecosystem I think this should be a priority upgrade over any other Nordost product.

An immediately noticeable increase in ease/transparency while lowering the noise floor and reducing digital glare. It’s one of the few cable products/tweaks that does not impart some type of sound signature, everything just got better and more real.

I am using a QB8 power distributor and Nordost Heimdall 2 power cables, so there is obviously a synergy going on here with the common design philosophy and the QB8 having a built in ground post. So I am not sure if users of other equipment will see such gains as I am hearing.

But this is a fantastic product and the option to ground 5 more devices gives lots of room for tweaking out of a single compact box item. It's a small but very solid chassis.
agisthos
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mkdm11
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I'm a little late on this thread, hopefully a relevant question.

I have had the QKORE in my system for 6 mo. I recently added a few components and found myself with an abundance of green Nordost interconnect cable routed through my rack. I only need 1m runs, but Nordost will not sell lengths below 2m.

Does terminating the wires less than 2m impact effectiveness? Recommended?

I reached out to Nodost, but the response I felt was ambiguous at best.

 

agisthos OP
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I agree that setting length at 2m minimum is not good, as reducing wire runs is a must and having 1m would be a nice option.

Nordost now have an upgraded higher end ground wire (of course) in black and you could possibly ask about custom lengths for that.

agisthos OP
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I just recently cleaned my audio room, took the entire system apart e.t.c

After putting it all back together it sounded great, but something was missing. I had not yet connected the QKore ground wire to the QB8 power distributor.

That single change then opened up the soundstage, removed digital-ness and made everything sound more natural. Could hear more detail, but not fatiguing, the opposite.

These grounding devices are essential. It’s hard to describe what the improvements are, because it’s not changes in tone or bass like you get with changing speaker/IC signal cables.

Just this one change made all the difference. You always wonder if a previous upgrade is as good as you think or were you just fooling yourself. Well it confirmed for me once again the QKore is awesome (connected to a Nordost QB8 anyway).

I am now going to get the QKore premium grounding wire and see if it’s any better than the stock. I need a 1m cable in that location and the premium ground wire is in 1m and 2m lengths, unlike the stock which is 2m only.

rbach
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I'm in the same boat.  I was one of the first to buy a Qkore6.  I bought the standard ground wires which were the only wires available at the time....a few months later Nordost came out with the premium wires.  ugh.  Looking forward to hearing if the upgrade to premium ground wires is worth the $.

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