Nordost has completed another successful show at TAVES.  This year was a special treat since we had the opportunity to reconnect with so many old industry friends and customers, as well as see a whole bunch of new faces!

It is always great to see how much support Nordost has and the Canadian market is no exception.  It was hard to enter a room with seeing (and hearing) our cables!  For those of you who missed out on the event, here are a few of our pictures from TAVES.

Our Demo room was equipped with two racks to do A-B demonstrations with the Sort Füt!

Audio Excellence was outfitted with our Valhalla 2 cables

The JL Audio and Dynaudio room used our Blue heaven cables, including speaker and USB!

Audio Eden’s room sounded amazing with our Valhalla 2 cables!

Long-time Nordost supporters, Coherent Audio, were wired with Heimdall 2 and power purified by QRT. Even the speakers had Nordost internal wiring!

Woo Audio’s rig used our new Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable and USB!

Mystic Audio used our Red Dawn and Blue Heaven cables.

Update TV was fully equipped with our Norse 2 line.

Rocky Mountain Audio Fest was yet another successful show for Nordost! We were impressed by the outstanding turnout for our live demonstrations, and now that the show is over, we are delighted to see the positive response that we have received in the media:

• The Audio Traveler— RMAF 2014: Nordost Busts Cable Myths
• Stereophile— RMAF 2014: Music & Seminars

However, Nordost wasn’t just limited to our own demo room; it could be heard all over the show!  We want to thank our dealer in Colorado, Apex Audio, as well as our other friends in the industry, both in the main show and in CanJam, for sporting Nordost products in their set-ups.

If you missed RMAF, here are a few pictures from the show!

Mike Marko gives one of his famous demos

Arcam using Valhalla 2 and Sort Kones!

Audioengine, outfitted with Blue Heaven

The Audio Beat’s demo room was outfitted with Tyr 2, QRT, and Sort Systems!

They even used the Sort Füt on their VPI turntable!

…and the new Tyr 2 Power Cord was out in full force!

Hegel was featuring our Heimdall 2 Speaker Cables along with a variety of our other cables and Sort Kones

Nola featured our state of the art Odin cables along with our QRT power products.

Apex Audio’s room was totally decked out with Nordost and we don’t need to tell you, it sounded amazing in there!

Jeff Rowland’s room was equipped with Valhalla 2 and the Sort Füt!

Pro Audio Ltd’s room was wired with Frey 2!

Moon was using our Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable with Mr.Speakers!

Woo Audio’s setup at the Can Jam used our interconnects, both the Blue Heaven and Heimdall 2 USB, and the Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable too!

The Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show is being held this year at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Downtown Toronto October 31- November 2, and Nordost is excited to be taking part! Come and see us in rooms 12 and 13 on the main show floor where we will be featuring our flagship Valhalla 2 Reference Cables. Not only will Nordost representatives be performing demonstrations and cable comparisons of power cords, interconnects, USB cables, auxiliary cables and power products, including our new Heimdall 2 USB 2.0, Heimdall 2 and Blue Heaven iKables and QK1s, but we will also be showing the Sort Füt used in an exciting new application: with audio racks!

While visiting the show, be sure to take advantage of an interactive personal audio listening station near the TAVES Art Gallery, featuring the new Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable, and enter for a chance to win a 2 meter Blue Heaven Power Cord!

This past weekend the Nordost team had a blast supporting our distributors and good friends at Radar for The Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show. Throughout the show Radar featured Nordost’s entire range, including our power products and resonance control devices. It was absolutely wonderful to see all of the enthusiasm people have for hifi and to witness the crowds that came out to participate in the event!

For those of you who couldn’t make the journey to experience it for yourselves, here are a few pictures of The Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show 2014. We hope to see you all there next year!

Come and join Nordost at the Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual Show this year August 8-10 in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Nordost will be represented in the RADAR suite, S421. 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 excited to be involved!  

The High End Show 2014 in Munich has come to an end, and Nordost couldn’t be happier with the results. We unveiled a number of new innovations this year in Munich, including the Tyr 2 Power Cord, the Blue Heaven and Heimdall 2 iKables, and the Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable.  The reaction that we received was overwhelming! We are so excited to finally release these products to consumers, and we are sure that you will have as much fun with them as we do.

We just want to end by saying a big thank you to all of our dealers and distributors who came out to see us during the show, and thank you to Bjorn Bengtsson and Michael Taylor for their effective demonstrations!

For those of you who were unable to make it to Munich this year, here are a few pictures from the show!

Bjorn Bengtsson gave an incredible demo, as always!

Michael Taylor captivating the audience with a Sort Kone demo

Bjorn Bengtsson and Andreas Proske showing off the new Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable

Nordost president, Joe Reynolds, getting in a quick listen to the new Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable.

The brand new Heimdall 2 Headphone Cable getting some press

The full Nordost cable range on display

The Nordost system

QB8 loaded up with QV2s and QK1s

Valhalla 2, Audio Physic Scorpio 25 plus+, and Sort Füt.

Nordost is going to be exhibiting at the High End 2014 show in Munich, held at the MOC May 15-18. Product specialists and trainers, Bjorn Bengtsson and Rune Skov, will be performing demonstrations and answering questions in Halle 4 Room 114 as our VP of international sales, Johann Graham, takes meetings with Nordost’s international distributors. Demonstrations will feature several new products that will be debuted in Munich this year. Nordost is eager to share these new innovations with High End 2014 attendees, and is looking forward to seeing all of our partners and friends again. High End 2014 should be a fantastic show. We hope to see you there!

By Joe Reynolds

Nordost is an internationally recognized brand. We conduct business in over 60 countries around the world. But what I really take pride in, is the fact that since its inception in 1991, Nordost’s products have been designed, manufactured and assembled exclusively in the United States.

The New England area has a long tradition of manufacturing and innovation, and when it comes to research and development this region is renowned. Distinguished universities and state-of-the-art research facilities attract some of the best and brightest designers and engineers from around the world. I am confident that this company was truly shaped by the environment in which it was created. With such a wealth of resources in our own backyard, we have been able to build our reputation on innovative products and meticulous attention to detail and nuance throughout the production process.

From our unique process of precision FEP extrusion, to Micro Mono-Filament and Dual Mono-Filament technologies, to breakthroughs in vibration control and finally to creating our own patent pending connector– the new HOLO:PLUG, all of Nordost’s processes, technologies and products are developed and constructed right here in Massachusetts.

We are committed to making all of our products in the US for many reasons. Nordost has a wonderful network of local partners who can deliver merchandise such as packaging and machined parts quickly and efficiently. We can control our quality more scrupulously because it is produced nearby.  We design all of our products in-house so that new models can be built and tweaked at a moment’s notice with our internal engineering team. But mostly, Nordost has a solid, dependable workforce that takes pride in the products they create, and we feel that as a privately held company we have a social responsibility to our local community and our employees that support us. Not only does this mean creating a pleasant working environment for our staff, but it also means making the decision to stay local even if the alternative may seem more cost effective.

In my opinion, a reason for the decline in manufacturing in North America is a rampant spread of short term thinking. Some publically traded companies are so preoccupied in their stock prices at the end of every quarter that they are forced to make rash decisions. While these decisions, such as outsourcing, may help the bottom line, they ultimately hurt their workforce as well as their local economy. Nordost is faced with the same decisions as these larger companies. Of course, we could source our cables (such as our HDMI cables) in Asia; however, we see the benefits of staying in America. Making our own cables means that we develop valuable knowledge and skills within our own company. As a result of this knowledge, we can produce high quality products today and will be able to continue to expand and push boundaries in the consumer electronics market in the future.

Nordost is excited to be showing at AXPONA in Chicago next month, April 25-27.  This should prove to be an excellent event.  Nordost will be well represented by various local dealers.  AXPONA is a great opportunity to hear a variety of Nordost products including full looms of our Supreme Reference and Reference ranges, Odin and Valhalla 2.  Stay tuned to Nordost’s Facebook page for more information as the show day approaches.  We hope to see you there!