Nordost products are designed to allow you to enjoy your favorite performances as they were intended to be heard. All of us here are passionate about great music, and want to share our passion with you. Each one of us has our own style… We listen to a wide variety of artists and genres but, in a way, we appreciate them all. We thought that we would share a few of the songs on our own personal playlists with you each month. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your tastes, but we hope that there is something here for everyone.
Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this March.
You can now listen to our monthly playlist here: TIDAL | SPOTIFY | QOBUZ
When the Morning Comes – Remastered – Kalapana – Kalapana I
I Go to Sleep – 2018 Remaster – Pretenders – Pretenders II (Deluxe Edition)
The Painter – Sara K. – Water Falls
Use Me – Bill Withers – Still Bill
Got A Girl – The Grogans – Day / To / Day
Deranged for Rock & Roll – Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence
“Take Me” – MINT JAMS – CASIOPEA
Little Green Apples – Single Version – Roger Miller – A Tender Look At Love
We’re excited to share a brand-new review highlighting one of Nordost’s most unique products: the QPOINT Resonance Synchronizer.
In his latest article for GY8, “Nordost QPOINT Resonance Synchronizers – Welcome to Discworld,” reviewer Dennis Davis explores the remarkable impact that Nordost’s QRT technology can have on an audio system. Having previously experienced the benefits of other QRT products, Dennis was curious to see how the QPOINT would perform. Once placed beneath his components, he quickly realized these discs weren’t going anywhere!
With the QPOINT in action, Dennis describes greater focus, rhythmic drive, and musical coherence in his system: “With the QPoints turned on, the imaging snapped into place… the music as a whole taking on a sense of clarity, shape, and pattern that was missing before.”
You can now read Dennis’s new article on the Reviews Page of the Nordost website.
Audiofi is a distinguished hi-fi retailer located within a prominent Vancouver district. The shop is easily recognized by its impressive, foliage-covered exterior. This beautiful entry perfectly sets the scene for the type of treatment and auditory surprises that are waiting for you inside.
Led by owner Philip Meyburgh and supported by associates Scot and Perry, the Audiofi team delivers an informed and highly professional client experience. Their extensive music knowledge and client-focused approach foster an environment where questions, demonstrations, and in-depth evaluations are welcomed. Philip and his team ensure that each customer is guided toward solutions that align with their individual preferences and listening needs.
Audiofi offers a curated portfolio of audio products across a broad range of price points, enabling the company to serve both new consumers and experienced audio enthusiasts with equal effectiveness. Each component and system is selected with careful consideration to ensure long-term performance and customer satisfaction.
For music lovers visiting Vancouver, Audiofi is a noteworthy destination for your high-fidelity audio needs, providing an experience that consistently exceeds the expectations of discerning listeners.
We’ve received some fantastic reviews and awards over the years for our products. When we get new reviews, we do our best to make sure that everyone knows. We spread the word through social media, blogs, emails, and tell anyone willing to listen! However, once the press starts piling up, and new products start to get their time in the spotlight, these amazing reviews can tend to be forgotten.
While you always have access to these great reviews, thanks to the Reviews Page on the Nordost website, we want to make sure that if you are considering an upgrade or just want to learn more about a specific product, you can do so easily. This is especially true with Nordost’s Network Switches. Nordost’s QNET and QNET7 are layer-2, five-port network switches that have been designed and constructed from the ground up to elevate digital audio performance. All aspects of Nordost’s network switches, from clocks, to transports, to independent ports, were chosen in order to minimize noise, crosstalk, and interference.
There is A LOT to learn about the QNET and QNET7, and the in-depth reviews that these products have received are a great starting point in understanding how they work, their benefits, and their differences.
This blog puts together some of our favorite QNET and QNET7 reviews so that you can access all of these informative articles at once!
“.. . there is an important musical consideration the QNET 7 brings to network audio; a sense of order and calm to the music. It’s as if the musicians practiced a little more before they went into the studio. Music hangs together better here. Once again, this is more peeling away layers between the listener and the music, rather than adding or changing the sound.” – Alan Sircom
“The impact of the Nordost QNET network switch and QSOURCE linear power supply is anything but subtle—it is intoxicatingly enticing. Their sheer ability to deliver startling immediacy, tactile presence, and meticulous attention to the playing is remarkable.” – Matej Isak
“With Nordost’s new QNET in place, everything sounds smoother and more fluid; it’s better balanced with less harshness. The leading edges of notes seem to be sharper and have more energy, giving the system greater dynamic expression.” – Mark Gusew
“Thanks to Nordost’s QNET, network audio just took a leap forward in listenability. It makes your streamed music sound more like music and it’s only when you realise just how far from that goal we usually are with networked audio that you begin to understand how important this humble- looking audiophile hockey puck is going to be.” – Alan Sircom
“With the QNET] It was clearly a move forward with small improvements across the board, and one major shift. The transformation of soundstage depth was extraordinary, as flat space became deep. The impression of 3D was so great it caused me to question, could this be an artifact?” – Marshall Nack
“I can honestly say that the QNet/QSource pairing transported me closer to my ultimate goal, which is to move closer to the source of artistic creation and the artists I love.” – Jason Victor Serinus
Nordost products are designed to allow you to enjoy your favorite performances as they were intended to be heard. All of us here are passionate about great music, and want to share our passion with you. Each one of us has our own style… We listen to a wide variety of artists and genres but, in a way, we appreciate them all. We thought that we would share a few of the songs on our own personal playlists with you each month. Some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your tastes, but we hope that there is something here for everyone.
Here are some of the songs that we will have on rotation this February.
You can now listen to our monthly playlist here: TIDAL | SPOTIFY | QOBUZ
Golden Green – Agnes Obel – Citizens of Glass
That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman – I, Jonathan
Isn’t It a Pity – Nina Simone – Emergency Ward (Expanded Edition)
Ruminations – Charles Lloyd – Figure In Blue
The Keys – Matt Duncan – Soft Times
Crash – USHER – Hard II Love
Wings for Marie (Pt1) – TOOL – 10,000 Days
San Jacinto – Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 4: Security (Remastered Version)
Hallelujah – Grayson Capps – Heartbreak, Misery & Death
Cannock Chase – Labi Siffre – Crying Laughing Loving Lying
Following up on our blog sharing Part I of Roy Gregory’s in-depth look at our Blue Heaven 3 cable range, we’re excited to share Part II of his review on GY8: Nordost Blue Heaven 3 – Pt II… Learning the Lessons and reaping the rewards of ‘One-ness’. In this installment, Roy takes an honest, step-by-step journey from a typical mix-and-match cable setup to a full system loom of Blue Heaven 3, something we’ve been advocating for years as one of the most effective paths to real performance gains.
What makes this article truly special is that Roy doesn’t just describe the benefits; he walks the reader through the practical process of upgrading an entire system’s cabling. Finding a reviewer willing to take the reader from a piecemeal cable arrangement to a full-system loom is rare. It’s a significant commitment of time and resources, so this first-hand account is a great guide to show what a consistent cable strategy can achieve.
Each Blue Heaven 3 cable performs exceptionally on its own. As Roy says, “If the Blue Heaven’s performance benefits don’t get your attention, that price differential certainly should.” However, after reading his account, you’ll understand how wiring your entire system with a unified line reveals the true potential of your components.
We’re pleased to share a new review of our Blue Heaven 3 cable range by reviewer Roy Gregory at GY8. Roy takes a thoughtful look at how cables not only influence a system individually, but as a part of a complete loom.
In his article, a system-wide approach to cabling is highlighted. As he explains, “the sonic and musical benefits of a ‘system-approach’ to cabling, one that treats the entire cable loom as a single component, is easy to hear… [and] fundamental to system performance.” But, as Roy notes, the practical and versatile nature of the Blue Heaven 3 range (with cables including loudspeaker, analog and digital interconnects, ethernet, USB, and power cables), is what makes it possible to wire an entire system with a single cable line.
Loom aside, this review underscores Blue Heaven 3’s role as a powerful foundation for those who want clarity, timing, and musical coherence from all of the components in their system, without immediately stepping into ultra-high-end cable territory.
“Musically and emotionally communicative, [Blue Heaven 3] both binds the components in a system together and releases their potential.” — GY8
What better way to start off the new year than by giving the people what they “liked” most throughout the past year, all in one spot! This 2025 blog round-up includes our posts from last year that received the most engagement, whether that be likes, shares, comments, retweets, Instagram reactions, or however you feel like measuring nowadays. Here are your favorite blogs of 2025!
Most Nordost fans are familiar with our QB8, but some don’t know about the more compact option: the QB4. For those who make the mistake that half the size means half the power – Not true! This blog gives you a little more information about the QB4 and corrects some common misconceptions!
If you’ve already integrated a Nordost QKORE Ground Unit into your audio system, you’ve most likely experienced the remarkable improvements in pacing, soundstage, and dynamics that the QKORE system brings to your audio setup. But, what if we told you that with just two simple upgrades, you could unlock even more benefits from your previous QRT investment? Find out how, here!
In 2025 Nordost was showered with awards from several hifi publications, including 15 Editor’s Choice Awards from the Absolute Sound. See which products were given this distinction in this blog…
When we introduced our Blue Heaven 3 Digital cables, we thought it would be helpful to share some of our most frequently asked questions around digital cables. We came up with some Q&As to help demystify digital cables as a whole and give insight into what makes Nordost digital cables, from Leif 3 all the way up to Odin Gold, special!
There’s no shortage of opinions about audio cables in the hi-fi world. Some swear by high-end cable upgrades, while others argue that “a cable is just a cable.” At Nordost, we’ve been designing some of the most reputable hifi audio cables in the industry for decades. We decided to set the record straight with this blog!
A story from the field of how Sort Kones made massive improvements in a real-world setting! See how the story unfolded and the sound-quality improved here… and see how it can be implemented in your own system.
When you launch a new product, there is obviously excitement and enthusiasm, but there can also be a lot of curiosity and questions that comes with that. In this blog, we share some of the most frequently asked questions regarding our QNET7.
By now you have probably read about our Leif 3 cables, but what makes these cables different from other options on the market? Here are the facts to help you see what Leif 3 really is…
We’re ending 2025 with a bang and starting 2026 off strong, thanks in part to the QNET7 Network Switch! The QNET7 received a glowing review in the December issue of hi-fi+. In it, reviewer Alan Sircom dives deep into the performance and design of the QNET7, highlighting how it builds on the legacy of the original QNET, further reducing noise and enhancing musical clarity over its predecessor.
In his article, Alan also explains that the QNET7 not only delivers technical improvements, but also imparts measurable musical benefits, bringing listeners closer to the heart of the performance itself, “…peeling away layers between the listener and the music, rather than adding or changing the sound.”
In fact, Alan was so impressed by the results he experienced with the QNET7 that it has already been awarded the distinction of hi-fi+ Winner 2026 in the category of Network Switch, an honor also given to the original QNET when it was released in 2022.
At Nordost, a large part of what we do is share what our audio components are capable of through live product demonstrations. To help do this, we spend a lot of time putting together playlists that highlight specific qualities in music and sound, so that you can appreciate the improvements that our cables and audio enhancers bring to a system. To begin 2026, we thought it would be fun to share our favorite demo songs of the past year with you. Some of these selections may have made an appearance in past playlists, but all of them are hits in our eyes (or ears!). As always, some may be classics, some may be brand new, some may not even be to your tastes, but we hope that there is something here for everyone to start off the new year on the right note.
You can listen to these tracks on our monthly playlist, here: TIDAL | SPOTIFY | QOBUZ
Tell Mama – The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Santana – Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time (Deluxe Version)
Normal – Katie Pruitt – Expectations
Love Hurts (Live) – Emmylou Harris – Spyboy (Live)
Stand by Me (Live at the Late Show with David Letterman) – Tracy Chapman – Greatest Hits
Walk with the Dreamers – Ambala – Volume 1
Messy (Stripped) – Lola Young – Messy EP
When The Lights Go Down – Prince – The Vault – Old Friends 4 Sale
