I have all Nordost cables Heimdall interconnect and speaker cables. Red Dawn and Tyr power. At first I thought they were thin but I came to the realization that what I wasn’t hearing was all the noise my old cables added.
Nordost doesn’t add anything, they transfer the signal cleanly. The more you spend the cleaner it is
Nordost vs Shunyata speaker cables- and the winner is . .
I purchased a pair of Nordost Heimdall 2 speaker cables for a different system but this weekend compared them back to back in my ref system cables - Shunyata Alpha V2.
System is Wilson Watt Puppy 50th Anniversary spkrs , McIntosh amp/preamp, Jay’s Audio CDT2 MkIII transport and Revox B77 rtr.
Switching back and forth between the 2 the Nordost bested the Alphas in several key areas but mainly overall resolution with no tradeoff losses (aside from the substantial cost difference).
It wasn’t day and night, but to my ears it is a noticeable incremental gain in transparency. I’d be happy with either cable but the Nordost are staying with the WWPs.
Perhaps I’ll try the same comparison with the other system (KEF Blade 2s, Burmester, Revox, Jay’s).
So it seems spkr cables do make a difference afterall- who knew.
(I’d like to post a pic of the 2 cables - how do I do that?)
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@swede58 Tyr2 interconnects are excellent. I never compared them with Shinyata though. |
@audphile1 Thanks but speaker cables from Kimber, Audience, Cardas, and others have high capacitance and are therefore not suitable for Gryphon, even though they are good cables. |
@swede58 interesting I didn’t know this about Gryphon. |
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