Nordost is happy to be taking part once again in Axpona, held at the Westin O’hare in Rosemont, just outside of Chicago, Friday, April 15—Sunday, April 17. This is a great opportunity for end users to experience live demonstrations and cable comparisons covering Nordost’s extensive range of products. Nordost will be featured in several rooms throughout the show including room 316, 450 and 646. While at the show, make sure to visit our sales booth in The Marketplace to take advantage of our special show offers on select Nordost products.

Nordost started the year once again at CES. As always, CES is a great time to catch up with dealers from all over the US, and our international distributors. It is also a wonderful opportunity to introduce new products. This year we introduced our Tyr 2 Digital 75 and 110 Ohm cables, our first two Ethernet cables in our Heimdall 2 and Blue Heaven ranges, and our Blue Heaven Headphone Cable. In addition to the new products that were featured in our room, CES attendees were able to see several Nordost products in systems throughout the show.

The Nordost Room:

Our Headphone Cables were also on display, including our new Blue Heaven model:

Our Pro Audio Ax Angel cables were on display:

Nordost cables were also used throughout the show in many fantastic systems!

VTL’s system used Odin 2: 

TAD used Tyr 2 cables:

Nola’s system used Odin 2 and QRT:

Hegel’s room used Heimdall 2, Blue Heaven, QRT and Sort Kones:

Thanks to everyone who came out!  Including Graham Nash!

Nordost is very excited to be exhibiting at NAMM for the very first time, January 21-24. There, Nordost will be featuring their new line of Pro Audio Cables, Ax Angel, which will be expanding in the new year to include high quality microphone and speaker cables. NAMM attendees will be able to hear the Nordost difference themselves at the Nordost booth, #2594, where they will be encouraged to take part in interactive cable comparisons. We hope to see you all in the new year in Anaheim!

Nordost is happy to announce that we will be in Las Vegas for CES once again in 2016! Both Nordost’s US and International sales teams and product trainers will be at the Venetian on floor 29, Suite 106, January 6-9. Throughout the show we will be meeting with our dealers and distributors, as well as performing live product demonstrations. This year Nordost will be showcasing our newest and most advanced cable range to date, Odin 2, as well as including some new and exciting products that will be released for the 2016 season. We hope to see you all there for a very exciting CES 2016!

Nordost had a wonderful time at TAVES.  It’s always great to show off our awesome products to our Canadian customers!  If you couldn’t make it to the show this year, enjoy these pictures from the event!

Michael Taylor gives a great Power Cord demonstration in Nordost’s room!

The Nordost system featuring the new Odin 2 cable range!

We had Wilson Sasha loudspeakers in the room, sounding unbelievable!

Bruno de Lorimier talks with customers at the Nordost booth

Coherent Audio’s speakers were not only hooked up with Heimdall 2 speaker cables, but they were internally wired with Nordost too!

The Blue Heaven HDMI cable rounded out Coherent Audio’s system.

Goerner Audio was wired with Valhalla 2 Reference cables

Reinhard of Goerner Audio was showing off his new line of loudspeakers from Wiener Lautsprecher Manufaktur

Woo Audio at Taves

Woo Audio was fully wired with Nordost Heimdall 2 cabling

By Bjorn Bengtsson

As far as Scandinavian hifi dealers go, no one boasts a larger representation of high-end hifi manufacturers, or offers a more knowledgeable staff than Oslo HiFi Center. In fact, the personnel at OHC are always ready to serve their customers with a skillset as large as their smile – eager to deliver the ultimate hifi experience at any budget, to any room size.

One of OHC’s slogans roughly translates to “You’ll never get closer to a concert hall”, an arguable statement when discussing the quality of any hifi set-up. However, as many of their customers recently discovered, in the case of Oslo HiFi Center, which literally includes a concert hall on the premises, it rings true.

 OHC treats its clients bi-annually, every spring and fall, with a special hifi event. This fall’s event happened to occur at the same time as the shop’s 40th year anniversary! As one of OHC’s main suppliers, Nordost was invited to work and participate. In attendance on the Nordost crew, led by president, Joe Reynolds, was V.P. of sales, Johann Graham and myself, product and sales trainer.

Founder and president of OHC, Geir Tømmervik, saw his store’s 40^th Anniversary as the perfect opportunity to flex his hifi muscles, and we were all blown away by his musical might. With great care and skill, Geir transformed the actual concert hall into a demonstration room, featuring the ultimate super system: Kef Muon speakers, Burmester amplification and multiple digital sources, IsoTek power products, an Avid analog turntable, and of course, the soon to be legendary Odin 2 was used throughout the whole system! With a retail value of close to 1.5 million USD, visitors were in for a very rare experience!  Which was, very rightfully so, highly appreciated!

Apart from the main attraction in the concert hall, Oslo HiFi Center’s 10+ demo rooms in their shop were designated for use by us manufacturers to demonstrate our products. In the Nordost room, we chose to focus on some demos of our power cords, digital USB transports and our unique QV2/QK1 technology.

 – For power cords, we specifically focused on the sonic differences when using different conductor solutions. In this case, multi-strand vs solid core, silver-plated copper— as well as exploring what happens when you double the conductor area.

 – We highlighted the extremely low capacitance and tight characteristic impedance tolerance of our digital USB cables and showed how they actually improve the live PCM streaming through the USB protocol.

 – The QV2 and QK1, designed to be used in pairs, were also demonstrated by showing both their individual characteristics and their cumulative possibilities.

 Even the weather gods seemed to support this event! Oslo was covered in an exceptionally good Scandinavian autumn sunshine, clear blue sky and cold temperatures. The sunshine and clear blue skies were appreciated by all; however, the colder temperatures did not receive the same unanimous appreciation …

The Nordost crew left this event smiling a lot, tired, but with a head full of extreme HiFi experiences and, let me say it again: smiling…

Thank you so much Geir, Mette, Henning, Øystein, Didrik, Arnfinn, Paul, Kim, Tormod and Ida for the great experience! What a wonderful team you are!

Photo credit: The Audio Beat

RMAF 2015 was a fantastic show for Nordost.  We could not be happier with the amount of exposure our cables received and the sound they helped achieve!  If you were not able to join us at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival at the beginning of this month, here are some photos of the event:

Nordost VP of North American Sales, Michael Taylor, gives a great product demo!

Nordost’s system fully outfitted with Odin 2!

Odin 2 in the system

Mike Marko adjusts the VPI Avenger Turntable (wired with Nordost internal tonearm cable!)

The VPI Avenger connected with the Odin 2 Tonearm Cable

Nordost President Joe Reynolds proudly accepting the Signal Cable Analogue Award for Valhalla 2!

Nordost cables could be heard all throughout the show. Here’s Constellation Audio’s room hooked up to Odin 2!

Wilson Alexia loudspeakers with Odin 2

MURAUDIO’s room used our Tyr 2 cables

Nola’s room used Odin Speaker Cables

Our dealer Apex Audio’s room sounded great with Valhalla 2 cables and Focal speakers

Jeff Rowland Design Group’s room used a wide array of Odin 2 cables

Woo Audio had a great setup in the Can Jam section of the show. Here’s their new WA8 with the Heimdall 2 iKable

More Heimdall 2 cables in Woo Audio’s rig

Heimdall 2 Headphone Cables were being used in Cavalli Audio’s booth at Can Jam

Nordost’s Joe Reynolds introduces accomplished, Irish singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy!

Eleanor McEvoy performing some of her hit songs, using Ax Angel cables!

Come and join Nordost at TAVES this year, October 30-November 1 at the Sheraton Parkway Hotel in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Throughout the show, TAVES attendees will have the opportunity to stop in and see Nordost’s truly unique cable comparisons and product demonstrations, presented by Nordost sales representative, Bruno de Lorimier. This is the perfect occasion to experience a world class sound system, complete with Nordost’s newest and most advanced Supreme Reference cable range—Odin 2. While at the show, don’t forget to visit Nordost’s sales booth where, thanks to our local dealer, Audio Excellence, we will be offering select Nordost products at amazing show specials.

Nordost is excited to be taking part in The Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show this year being held at the Sheraton Parkway Hotel in Richmond Hill, Ontario October 30- November 1. Come and see us in the Victoria Square Room on the main show floor where we will be featuring our flagship Odin 2 Supreme Reference Cables. Nordost product trainers and sales representatives will be performing product demonstrations and cable comparisons throughout the. This is the perfect opportunity to listen to hifi’s preeminent components, enjoy great music like you’ve never heard before, and learn the impact that quality audio cables can have on your sound system first hand. While you are there, don’t forget to visit our booth in Nordost’s lobby location to take advantage of some exclusive show specials!

The Hong Kong High End Audio Visual Show was a resounding success! The Asian debut of Nordost’s groundbreaking, new Supreme Reference Series, Odin 2, could not have been better. With over 15,000 people in attendance on only the first day of the event, it is clear that Hong Kong’s hifi following has never been stronger. With thanks to our wonderful distributers and friends at Radar Audio Company, Nordost had an excellent presence at the show!

Here are a few pictures of Nordost at the Hong Kong High End Audio Visual Show for those who missed it.