{"id":437,"date":"2014-05-29T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2014-05-29T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:47:49","slug":"hans-wetzel-reviews-frey-2-for-soundstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/hans-wetzel-reviews-frey-2-for-soundstage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Wetzel reviews Frey 2 for Soundstage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordost.com\/images\/review-images\/review-pdf\/SSHiFi-NordostFrey2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-477\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px;\" alt=\"Review Banner- Frey 2\" src=\"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Review-Banner-Frey-2.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Review-Banner-Frey-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Review-Banner-Frey-2-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Review-Banner-Frey-2-500x168.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The consumer electronics industry is constantly changing. New technologies and upgrades are introduced on a regular basis. In order to stay current with hifi audio\u2019s latest and greatest, it\u2019s important to keep one ear to the ground, so to speak. There are a number of publications available, whether print, digital, blog or otherwise, that provide all of the information needed to stay up to speed. One great example is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundstagenetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soundstage!\u00a0<\/a> A few months ago, Soundstage! published an article, written by reviewer Hans Wetzel, featuring Nordost\u2019s Frey 2 range. In his article, Wetzel looks at the entire loom of our Frey 2 cables including speaker cables, interconnects and power cords\u2014and we are quite pleased with his conclusions!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf there&#8217;s a cable company whose products soundstage with the same breadth and agility that Nordost&#8217;s can, I&#8217;m unaware of it.&#8221;\u00a0\u2013Hans Wetzel, Soundstage!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Wetzel\u2019s full review\u00a0is now available on the Nordost website under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordost.com\/reviews.php\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>View the full review here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordost.com\/images\/review-images\/review-pdf\/SSHiFi-NordostFrey2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Nordost\u2014Frey2 Speaker Cables, Interconnects and Power Cables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-457\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px;\" alt=\"Picture 683\" src=\"http:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lg-frey-analog-interconnect.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lg-frey-analog-interconnect.jpg 625w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lg-frey-analog-interconnect-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lg-frey-analog-interconnect-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consumer electronics industry is constantly changing. 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In order to stay current with hifi audio\u2019s latest and greatest, it\u2019s important &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nordost.com\/blog\/hans-wetzel-reviews-frey-2-for-soundstage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hans Wetzel reviews Frey 2 for Soundstage!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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>Hans Wetzel reviews Frey 2 for Soundstage!  - 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\/hans-wetzel-reviews-frey-2-for-soundstage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hans Wetzel reviews Frey 2 for Soundstage!  - Nordost Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The consumer electronics industry is constantly changing. 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