{"id":3000,"date":"2017-08-08T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:43:31","slug":"marc-mickelson-reviews-the-qkore-for-theaudiobeat-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/marc-mickelson-reviews-the-qkore-for-theaudiobeat-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Mickelson reviews the QKORE for TheAudioBeat.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2931\" src=\"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Review-Banner-QKORE_wide.png\" alt=\"Review Banner-QKORE_wide\" width=\"864\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Review-Banner-QKORE_wide.png 864w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Review-Banner-QKORE_wide-300x70.png 300w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Review-Banner-QKORE_wide-500x116.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt;\">Nordost&#8217;s\u00a0new QKORE products are receiving a lot of worldwide press attention. The latest review featuring these revolutionary grounding devices can be found on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theaudiobeat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-hs-link-id=\"0\">theaudiobeat.com<\/a>. In his article, Marc\u00a0Mickelson\u00a0is very impressed with our QKORE Ground Units, and the blatant\u00a0effects that they have on a sound system, remarking, &#8220;What you hear will be positive, and dead obvious, with every recording&#8230;&#8221;. While reflecting on exactly what he was hearing, he said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;[The] purist recordings of small ensembles&#8230;made plain QKORE&#8217;s contributions, as the recording venue sounded bigger and the musicians more in-the-room present, no &#8216;maybe&#8217; about it. This occurred across recordings and components, QKORE expanding musical horizons and making everything in them sound more vivid\u2014more grounded, you could say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marc&#8217;s QKORE review is now available to read on the Nordost website here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nordost.com\/images\/review-images\/review-pdf\/Nordost_QKore_Grounding[2].pdf\">Nordost QKORE Grounding System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find more great Nordost reviews on our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordost.com\/reviews.php?utm_campaign=Product%20Reviews&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9LO7L4TjMZgEgFEhfxHroCwmhWI4r_goAhPtBoiCVKDrVi0rqI6A_b8JhpRhlgcbCHPCI9\" target=\"_blank\" data-hs-link-id=\"0\">Reviews Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordost&#8217;s\u00a0new QKORE products are receiving a lot of worldwide press attention. The latest review featuring these revolutionary grounding devices can be found on\u00a0theaudiobeat.com. 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