What to Expect From a QRT Demonstration

If you’ve yet to explore Nordosts QRT products, now’s the time! QRT Power Products and Audio Enhancers are specifically designed to improve your audio system by alleviating the poor-quality AC and DC power on your sensitive electronics, providing everything form proper grounding to synchronizing the electromechanical resonances of your components. Like all Nordost products, QRT solutions are easy to demonstrate in any system and the performance improvements that they bring to your music are immediate and unmistakable. However, we recognize that for some people, sitting in on a demonstration can be intimidating. Often times, listeners appreciate knowing what to listen for when they sit down to audition a product. 

While it may be impossible to pinpoint the exact effect that each QRT product will have on your system, (due to the fact that each system is different based on the components that its comprised of, and how those components interact with each other) we still want you to have an idea of what to expect. To do that, we have listed some of the sonic effects that you can expect to hear when introducing each QRT product into your sound system! 

What to listen for when auditioning the … 


QBASE AC Distribution (QB8/QB6/QB4)

  • Develops the soundstage, imparting 3D quality to imaging
  • Tonal richness and depth in the music becomes more noticeable
  • A quieter background allows layers of resolution and details to come to the forefront of performance
  • Brings a sense of neutrality to the system, allowing the sonic signature of your components to shine

QKORE Ground Unit (QKORE1/QKORE3/QKORE6)

  • Strips noise from the system, imparting a blacker background, which allows you to appreciate details and nuances in the music
  • Improves pacing, timing coherence, and natural decays in the music
  • Extends the soundstage, presenting a livelier presentation with stronger image outlines
  • Improves the accuracies in both the timbral and bass region, opening up the entire dynamic range

QPOINT Resonance Synchronizer

  • Enhances the musical organization, focus, and coherence 
  • The two modes of operation emphasize slightly different aspects of the musical reproduction 
  • Introduces a controlled sense of dynamic freedom and force to the sound 
  • Allows the natural quality of the instruments to shine through, as well as vocal separation and three-dimensionality

QSOURCE Linear Power Supply 

  • Dramatically lowers the background noise 
  • Any device it powers will produce a much wider/deeper soundstage with more clarity, ambience and resolution
  • Music reproduction has more dynamic range and is more nuanced 

QVIBE AC Line Harmonizer (QV2) 

  • Increases aspects of depth, realism, and spacing in the music
  • Lowers the perceived background noise
  • Smooths sibilants in the playback

QKOIL AC Enhancer (QK1) 

  • Increases clarity of imaging, sharpness, depth, and focus 
  • Improves elements of speed and timing in the music 
  • Lowers the noise floor 

Contact your local dealer to set up an in-store or at-home demo of our QRT products today!


Introducing the Premium QKORE Wire

Nordost’s QKORE Wire is the final piece to the grounding puzzle when it comes to Nordost’s comprehensive parallel grounding system, the QKORE. Originally introduced alongside the QKORE in 2017, the complementary QKORE Wire provides the path of least resistance to ground for the stray, high-frequency, low-voltage potentials that negatively impact the performance of your sound system.

While one of the design directives of the QKORE Wire was to facilitate the transfer of extremely low voltages from electronics to the Ground Unit, another highly important (and an often overlooked) aspect that this component brings to the grounding system is mechanical benefits. In order to even further advance the already staggering enhancements that the QKORE brings to two-channel hifi systems, Nordost has decided to introduce the Premium QKORE Wire.

Nordost’s new Premium QKORE Wire is a mechanically tuned cable that utilizes Nordost’s patented Micro Mono-Filament technology, combined with extruded FEP insulation, and constructed with a 14 AWG, silver-plated OFC, solid core conductor. The augmentation made in its design allows for increased functionality of the QKORE grounding system, with an even quieter background, and therefore the ability to deliver a more full and realistic soundstage.

In order to accommodate the vast majority of components that could exist in any one hifi system, the QKORE Wire is available with the following termination options: spade, banana, male-XLR, female-XLR, BNC, RCA, USB-A, USB-B, and RJ45.

Nordost’s QKORE ground units are transformative, imparting a quietness to your system’s background that allows them to increase the transparency and detail of the music. Now, with the Premium QKORE Wire, you are not only completing the QKORE ground system, but giving it a meaningful upgrade that brings a whole new level of vivacity and veracity to every performance.


  • Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) insulation
  • Micro Mono-Filament technology
  • 14 AWG Conductor
  • Silver-plated 99.9999% solid core OFC


Part-Time Audiophile reviews Nordost’s QKORE Ground Units

Our Ground Units keep getting more and more praise! We wrapped up 2020 with a new review of our QKORE products. When Marc Phillips from Part-Time Audiophile auditioned our QKOREs, he was so impressed by how quiet they made his system, he even attributed them in helping him diagnose some tinnitus! But our QKOREs did more than just make his system quiet: 

“When the time came for me to remove the Nordost QKORE grounding units from the system, I noticed the difference immediately… I felt my system lost just a bit of its edge and clarity.” – Marc Phillips, Part-Time Audiophile


You can read Part-Time Audiophile’s review in its entirety here: Nordost QKORE Ground Units and QKORE Wire | REVIEW

You can find this review and more great Nordost reviews on our Reviews Page.


Nordost Playlist – February 2021

Nordost is happy that we can continue to make our time spent at home a little more enjoyable with the gift of great music. Our products aim to allow you to enjoy your favorite performances as they were intended to be heard. Like you, we here at Nordost are music lovers. 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


  1. Ngui Yi—Black Bassy—1958 
  2. Grapes of Wrath—Weezer—OK Human 
  3. The Power—Elton John, Little Richard—Jewel Box 
  4. Lo Vas A Olvidar (with ROSALÍA)—Billie Eilish, ROSALÍA—Euphoria 
  5. Shake Sugaree—Elizabeth Cotten and Brenda Evans—Shake Sugaree 
  6. Young Americans-2016 Remaster—David Bowie—Young Americans 
  7. Chloroform—Ani DiFranco—Revolutionary Love
  8. hold yourself.—Tune Yards –hold yourself.
  9. The Pebble And The Man—Bridget St John—Songs For The Gentle Man
  10. Skyway—The Replacements—Pleased to Meet Me