{"id":3281,"date":"2017-12-15T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:48:24","slug":"al-griffin-reviews-purple-flare-for-soundstageaccess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/al-griffin-reviews-purple-flare-for-soundstageaccess\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Griffin reviews Purple Flare for SoundStage!Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Review-Banner-Purple-Flare_wide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3285\" src=\"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Review-Banner-Purple-Flare_wide.jpg\" alt=\"Review Banner-Purple Flare_wide\" width=\"864\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Review-Banner-Purple-Flare_wide.jpg 864w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Review-Banner-Purple-Flare_wide-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Review-Banner-Purple-Flare_wide-500x116.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We love it when cable skeptics review our products. Al Griffin was wary to concentrate\u00a0on cabling when first tasked by Soundstage! to review our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordost.com\/leif\/purple-flare.php\">Purple Flare<\/a>\u00a0Interconnects and Speaker Cables. However, after taking the time to study the impact that Nordost cables brought to his sound system, he admittedly &#8220;crossed a threshold&#8221;. The tonal separation between vocals and individual\u00a0instruments, the increased\u00a0clarity, and the three-dimensional\u00a0quality that Purple Flare brought to the performance was undeniable.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000000;\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I heard differences almost from the get-go, and those differences were improvements: better resolution of low-level details, and better spatial definition.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Al&#8217;s Purple Flare review is now available to read on the Nordost website here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundstageaccess.com\/index.php\/834?utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=2&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8boX38qrGVzoIWGfhFJQW_TG_O1EH0EkPzfJlzdcu-6FZA2Xm3iAFeuXTHVRFe4RewC7xJnwOWV2bLL_f3F02n0PXXDw&amp;_hsmi=2\" target=\"_blank\">Nordost&#8217;s Leif Purple Flare Speaker Cables and Interconnects\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">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;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3286\" src=\"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Leif-Purple-Flare-Speaker-Cable.jpg\" alt=\"Picture 392\" width=\"2480\" height=\"3508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Leif-Purple-Flare-Speaker-Cable.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Leif-Purple-Flare-Speaker-Cable-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Leif-Purple-Flare-Speaker-Cable-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love it when cable skeptics review our products. Al Griffin was wary to concentrate\u00a0on cabling when first tasked by Soundstage! to review our\u00a0Purple Flare\u00a0Interconnects and Speaker Cables. However, after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/al-griffin-reviews-purple-flare-for-soundstageaccess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Al Griffin reviews Purple Flare for SoundStage!Access&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nordosts-technical-and-product-blog","category-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Al Griffin reviews Purple Flare for SoundStage!Access - Nordost Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/al-griffin-reviews-purple-flare-for-soundstageaccess\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Al Griffin reviews Purple Flare for SoundStage!Access - Nordost Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We love it when cable skeptics review our products. 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