The Sound Environment is happy to invite you to “An Evening With Nordost”. Please join us Thursday, November 10^th at The Sound Environment’s showroom in Omaha, Nebraska from 4-8 PM. Nordost sales manager and product trainer, Mike Marko, will be in attendance to guide patrons through Nordost’s philosophy, technology and all of the advances that Nordost cables can bring to your sound system. Presentations will be held at the top of every hour, so there are plenty of opportunities to listen to great music and gain some valuable information.

An Evening With Nordost

The Sound Environment

11021 Elm St.

Omaha, NE 68144

Thursday, November 10^th 4-8PM

RSVP/Contact Information: 402-391-3842

By Mat Weisfeld of VPI Industries

Let’s take a minute and talk about cables!  No really, this blows my mind because I was on the side that used to say, “changing your cables?  What could it really do to the sound”.  Let me tell you it can do a lot! Nordost brought an Avenger Reference with two arms mounted up to Rocky Mountain Audiofest 2016.  One arm with standard VPI wire, and the other arm wired with Nordost Reference wire.  This is not the first time we have done this comparison together but the first time it has been done on this level of clarity.  We stepped up our game by upgrading the table from a standard Avenger to Reference and the cartridge to an Ortofon Cadenza Black.

Most comparisons of product are actually not accurate or fair.  When someone changes a variable in their system it is important to only change ONE VARIABLE!  That might sound like a no brain-er but there are often listening comparisons when more than one component is changed.  “Wow, cartridge A is so much better than cartridge B”.  What about the fact that you were using two entirely different arms or different cable?  If every other variable, besides the one you are testing, are not the same than it is not a fair comparison, even down to the setup, which brings us back to the Nordost demonstration at Rocky Mountain.

I personally set up both arms and ensured that they both had the same alignment, VTA, and tracking force.  Setting up the arms and cartridges was easy, getting them both EXACTLY IDENTICAL to each other, that took some time, quiet, and soft music in the background to achieve.

Once all the set-up/fine tuning and just a touch of drinking was done… it was time to move the needle!  We listened to a track using the standard tonearm wire that already sounded great on it’s own!  However, from the first note, switching to the reference tonearm wire added a whole other level of articulation and detail that wasn’t present on the first listening run.  I found my foot tapping and my overall experience felt natural and alive.  Not only that, the whole system was just fired up and sounded fantastic right out of the gate when it would only get better as it warmed up and broke in.  We were extremely happy with the overall sound and even happier about the distinct difference being demonstrated by the good folks at Nordost!

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Come and join us for a night of demonstrations, comparisons and great music! Nuts About HiFi, in Silverdale, Washington is hosting a Nordost Event in their showroom on October 21st, from 4-9 PM. Nordost product specialist, Jon Baker will be showing attendees the benefits of using high quality audio cables in a hifi system.  We hope that everyone in the Silverdale area will be able to visit us next week for what will prove to be a very informative and fun evening!

 Nuts About HiFi

9960 Silverdale Way

Silverdale WA 98383

United States of America

(360) 698-1348

Nordost is excited to be taking part in the Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show this year, October 28-30. Join us at the Sheraton Parkway Hotel in Richmond Hill, Ontario, in the Victoria Square room for a weekend focused on hifi. Nordost representatives and product trainers, Michael Tayler and Bruno de Lorimier, will be performing demonstrations and cable comparisons of power cords, interconnects, USB cables, and resonance control products, including our new Sort Lift. While at the show, don’t forget to visit Nordost’s sales booth, where we will be offering select Nordost products at amazing show prices.

Come and join Nordost at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival this October 7-9 at the Denver Marriott Tech Center in Colorado. This year in the Humboldt Peak Room, Nordost will be introducing the newest addition to our Sort System– the Sort Lift. The Sort Lift is a unique and extremely effective cable support, which elevates loudspeaker cables, power cords, and interconnects off the ground. While other cable lifters in the industry are only concerned with doing just that– lifting the cable, the Sort Lift also inhibits the transfer of electrical charges from surface to cable, rids the dielectric of static build-up, and reduces boundary effects, while delivering a noticeable sonic improvement on the performance of sound systems. We can’t wait to show off this exciting innovation to end users for the first time at RMAF! While you are there, don’t forget to visit our booth outside of the Market Place to take advantage of some exclusive Nordost show specials!

The Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show is being held this year at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center August 5-7th and Nordost is excited to be taking part! Come and see us in the Radar room, S421, where Nordost representatives will be there to perform demonstrations and cable comparisons as well as answer product questions. The Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show is one of the most important events in the audio and visual industry in Hong Kong and South East Asia, and we are happy to be involved once again!

Once again, Munich High End 2016 was a tremendous success.  This year at the MOC, we decided to focus our demonstrations on some of the most controversial and “on-trend” elements of hifi at the moment: vinyl and music streaming. In these demos we showed the differences between a generic Ethernet Cable and our new Blue Heaven and Heimdall 2 Ethernet Cables, as well as took attendees through the progression of tonearm cables, starting with Blue Heaven and culminating with Valhalla 2. Additionally, thanks to the dual-armed VPI Avenger turntable, we were able to compare standard internal tonearm wiring with our Reference Internal Tonearm Cable. Needless to say, the results were not subtle.  

Here are some photos from the event!