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.
For this review i m focusing on nordost s speaker and headphone cables.
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.
Those are savings of 78 and 85 respectively.
The nordost heimdall 2 cable is 2 meters long for 799.
The most interesting measurement of all.
Red dawn speaker cables run 1 040 for a 2.
The heimdall interconnect is 600 1m pair the valhalla version going for 4000.
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.
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.
The cable is 2m long and will be a bit longer if using an adapter.
For the purposes of this review nordost provided me with a complete loom of their heimdall 2 cables that included.
These satisfied about 80 percent of my requirements for the review.
Nordost have stepped up their game and added a norse 2 series usb to their suite of cables.
The remaining cables came from other nordost families.
The only other usb cable is from their leif series the blue heaven.
Love to hear any comments or reviews.
The small amounts of cables are bundled in a thick red rubber jacket that is translucent enough to peak inside.
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 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.
The headphone cable came from their heimdall 2 collection that is part of their norse 2 classification.
Just a heads up for the nordost crowd.
The usb digital and hdmi cables were part of nordost s blue heaven collection within the same leif class of products.
But they are costly.
Nordost valhalla 2 usb 2 0 cable review plus a quick test of nordost s heimdall 2 ethernet cable.
