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.
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Running another separate ground rod to earth is against code in most places so watch that. It is here in Australia, where having different ground rods can effect the MEMS connection at the fuse box.

Probably best comparison would be to compare Puritan Groundmaster City vs QKore 1 on a power distributors ground terminal. There is a large price difference, the Puritan is only $250.

I just upgraded my QKore ground wire from standard to premium for one of the connections, a BNC digital input on a Naim streamer.

From first plug in, it seemed a subtle and just OK upgrade, like better bass. But after leaving it working 48 hours, a new level of transparency and lower noise floor that was surprising. A great upgrade for the price, the 2m Premium QKore wire being only about $500 USD. One of the cheapest cable line upgrades Nordost do...

I was using a RCA-BNC adaptor on the standard QKore wire, so don't know what difference that could have made.

More QKore adventures - I also have a QKore Premium USB-A cable.

Tried it on the Lindemann Bridge II streamer, and QNAP NAS that holds local media files. Did not like it, had a negative effect. Tried it on LG G2 OLED TV, same thing.

I now have a Sony B8M2 OLED and just tried it now not expecting anything and it was a noticeable improvement. This just shows how similar components react to grounding vastly different depending on their design.

Well I am happy now this grounding cable is not sitting in a box doing nothing!