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Here is one more an empirical testimonial supporting this position....and that may be its time for the uninformed and the naysayers to hark and heed.
NORDOST ran a demonstration symposium at the 2014 TAVES audio expo in Toronto and its symposium was written up in an audiomag below. The thousands that attended it came away with the universal conclusion that cables DO matter. It wasn't any kind of a David Copperfield illusion or mass hypnosis ......Read for yourself .....
http://canadahifi.com/taves-consumer-electronics-show-2014-now-we-have-a-ces-north-part-2-by-george-de-sa/
"....I had a chance to sit in on a couple demonstrations in the Nordost room, giving my feet a well deserved break. I’m very familiar with the benefits of high quality cables and use a full Nordost Heimdall 2 loom with my reference two-channel setup. That being said, I always find the Nordost demonstrations to be an “ear-opening” experience. Michael Taylor from Nordost demonstrated the significant sonic benefits of replacing an OEM cable with a Nordost model – in particular 1) a swap of a single USB cable, from OEM to Nordost Blue Heaven ($250/2m), to Heimdall 2 ($500/2m) and; 2) a swap of a single RCA interconnect, from OEM, to Blue Heaven, to Heimdall 2, to Tyr 2 and finally Valhalla 2. Along with convincing the audience in the room that cables DO matter, I’ve now got the bug to upgrade...."
Here is one more an empirical testimonial supporting this position....and that may be its time for the uninformed and the naysayers to hark and heed.
NORDOST ran a demonstration symposium at the 2014 TAVES audio expo in Toronto and its symposium was written up in an audiomag below. The thousands that attended it came away with the universal conclusion that cables DO matter. It wasn't any kind of a David Copperfield illusion or mass hypnosis ......Read for yourself .....
http://canadahifi.com/taves-consumer-electronics-show-2014-now-we-have-a-ces-north-part-2-by-george-de-sa/
"....I had a chance to sit in on a couple demonstrations in the Nordost room, giving my feet a well deserved break. I’m very familiar with the benefits of high quality cables and use a full Nordost Heimdall 2 loom with my reference two-channel setup. That being said, I always find the Nordost demonstrations to be an “ear-opening” experience. Michael Taylor from Nordost demonstrated the significant sonic benefits of replacing an OEM cable with a Nordost model – in particular 1) a swap of a single USB cable, from OEM to Nordost Blue Heaven ($250/2m), to Heimdall 2 ($500/2m) and; 2) a swap of a single RCA interconnect, from OEM, to Blue Heaven, to Heimdall 2, to Tyr 2 and finally Valhalla 2. Along with convincing the audience in the room that cables DO matter, I’ve now got the bug to upgrade...."