Nordost Cables
The top end of what we sell, and the brand behind our burn-in service: every eligible cable we ship is conditioned on a Nordost Vidar in our own workshop.
About Nordost Cables
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The aerospace origins of Nordost's flat cable
Nordost began with a material problem rather than a musical one. The company was founded in Holliston, Massachusetts in 1991, and despite the name and the Norse model names it is American. The founders came from a background in extruding very thin, very consistent insulation for aerospace applications, and the first Nordost cables were an attempt to find out what that manufacturing capability could do for audio.
The result looks unlike anything else. Nordost cables are flat, with conductors held in a plane and spaced precisely, and that is not a styling decision. Insulation stores and releases energy, and the less of it touching a conductor, the less of that happens. Flat geometry lets Nordost use a thin, even layer of FEP across a wide surface rather than a thick jacket wrapped around a bundle.
On the higher ranges this goes further. Micro mono-filament construction wraps a fine filament helically around the conductor, holding the FEP away so most of what surrounds the signal is air. Air is the best dielectric available and the hardest to build a cable around.
Nordost also make the QRT power and grounding products and the Sort System isolation range, both developed in-house rather than sourced.
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Nordost group their cables into three families rather than naming each level individually, which catches people out. Leif covers White Lightning, Blue Heaven, Red Dawn and Purple Flare. Norse 2 covers Heimdall 2, Frey 2 and Tyr 2. Reference covers Valhalla 2 and Odin 2. So a customer asking for Heimdall is asking for a Norse 2 cable, and the step from Leif to Norse 2 is where micro mono-filament arrives.
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From£166.67Ex. VATThe Norse 2 jumper uses a silver-plated, solid core OFC conductor which is wrapped in a precise spiral of Micro Mono-Filament before being covered in an outer layer of FEP insulation and cut at a specific, mechanically tuned length. -
£37.50Ex. VATThis test CD contains everything that you need to get a system sounding its best – and keep it that way.
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Nordost Red Dawn LS Loudspeaker Cable Pair - Special OfferSKU: Red Dawn Speaker
(2 reviews)From£783.29 £1,116.67Ex. VAT ✓ Save £333.38Red Dawn LS bears comparison with competing cables irrespective of price. As the best, non Micro Mono-Filament speaker cable that we can make, it's pretty much the best non Micro Mono-Filament speaker cable out there! -
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Nordost Blue Heaven Type A to Type B USB Cable - Special OfferSKU: Blue Heaven USB Type B
(1 reviews)From£274.99 £345.83Ex. VAT ✓ Save £70.84The Blue Heaven USB 2.0 data cable sets a new technological and performance standard when it comes to computer audio.
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From£83.33Ex. VATThe Sort Kone is a directly coupled and mechanically tuned resonance control device, using a sophisticated new approach to the problem of supporting sensitive electronics.
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From£354.17Ex. VATNordost’s Heimdall 2 iKable, the digital files in your pocket aren't only portable, but they can be played with the quality you've come to expect from your own hifi system. Available terminated with 3.5mm Minijack plugs, RCA plugs or XLR Plugs. -
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Nordost Blue Heaven 3.5mm Minijack iKable - Special OfferSKU: Blue Heaven iKable
(2 reviews)From£123.29 £175.00Ex. VAT ✓ Save £51.71The new Blue Heaven LS iKable combines silver-plated, OFC solid core conductors with Nordost’s innovative precision FEP extrusion technology, greatly reducing dielectric properties in order to increase signal speeds and accuracy in signal transfer. Available terminated with 3.5mm Minijack plugs, RCA plugs or XLR plugs -
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Nordost Purple Flare Type A to Type Micro B USB Cable - Special OfferSKU: Purple Flare USB Micro B
(2 reviews)From£139.12 £200.00Ex. VAT ✓ Save £60.88The Purple Flare 2.0 Data Cable is the perfect solution for hifi audio enthusiasts trying to accommodate DACS, especially ones that require micro-B or mini-B connectors.
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From£2,808.33Ex. VATThe V2 4K UHD cable is constructed using 24 AWG silver-plated, solid core conductors, which allows the flow of ultra-high frequency current, used to carry TMDS, to reach critical speeds for excellent data transfer -
From£258.33Ex. VATThe Red Dawn USB Cable is the first of Nordost's USB options to offer USB C plug compatibility. This Cable uses silver-plated 99.9999%, OFC signal conductors, optimally designed for digital signal transfer. -
From£258.33Ex. VATThe Red Dawn USB Cable is the first of Nordost's USB options to offer USB C plug compatibility. This Cable uses silver-plated 99.9999%, OFC signal conductors, optimally designed for digital signal transfer. -
From£1,383.33Ex. VATThe Frey 2 Tonearm Cable + is virtually noiseless, with rapid transmission speed and the highest bandwidth capabilities, thanks to its twisted pair design, individualized shielding, and Nordost’s proprietary Dual Mono-Filament technology. It also employs a separately shielded, silver-plated bond wire, wrapped in Micro Mono-Filament, to minimize noise from the line.
