Description

Nordost Red Blue Heaven speaker cable Silver-plated OFC loudspeaker wire Flat hifi audio cable audiophile cable for Amplifier DVD CD

Cable Charateristics:

Nordost every cable is individually designed for purpose.The plating process meets clinical standards of consistency, purity and absence of contaminants.The Blue Heaven speaker cable uses 14 solidcore copper conductors of 14 AWG (American Wire Gauge), silver-plated and laid within an extruded FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene, which is very close to what we would call Teflon) ribbon, chosen for its exceptional dielectric properties.Designing their speaker wires to lie adjacent to each other as opposed to being wound allows Nordost to maintain excellent spacing accuracy along the entire cable length. The interconnect cables were supplied to me in both balanced and single ended configuration and are a fully shielded design. Internally they use 4 x 24 AWG, solid core copper conductors, also silver-plated by Nordost and wound in a minimum cross-section configuration with no extra padding.

Borrowed from the more expensive cables in the Nordost line, this is confined in the Leif series to just the power cords and digital leads, critical applications in which the company feels, it makes the greatest difference. MMF topology means that a thread of FEP is wound around each of the conductors before an FEP sleeve is extruded over them. This reduces the contact between the conductor and the FEP dielectric by more than 80% making them a virtual air dielectric design.

This Nordost louderspeaker cable is quite different, surprisingly so in fact and impeccably balanced with no trace of any tonal lift through the bandwidth at all. What remains is the superb speed and rhythmic delicacy. There is no sense of blurring confusion whatsoever as the music remains assuredly cohesive from top to bottom and under all types of musical duress. When I speak about the speed I also mean the way in which the cable is able to focus its energies so efficiently as if it is carrying no excess fat or artificial weight as a handicap. The sound is always crisp, very transparent with a slight dryness in the bass perhaps. Installed into a dCS CD player, Vitus SS 010 or David Berning Pre One/Quadrature Z amplification driving a pair of Focal Utopia Diablos the Blue Heaven excels at sheer articulation in that it can show you musicianship and style through very small dynamic shifts and contrasts. Compared to a some of the pure solid wound cables I have heard it gives away a small amount in sheer weight and overall scale, but I prefer the leaner and extra delicacy that the Blue Heaven provides plus of course the extra speed of musical delivery and recovery which allows the system to loose energy as fast as it gains it. The Blue Heaven skips through the music with remarkable rhythmic focus and intensity where so many cables seem to wade through.

Cable Specification:

Construction: Mechanically tuned spacing

Conductors: 20 x 26 AWG

Material: Silver-plated 99.9999% solid 9cores x 0.15mm OFC, 14pins

Capacitance: 10.0pF/ft

Inductance: 0.155μH/ft

Velocity of Propagation: 95%

Thickness: 1.6mm

Width: 26mm

Termination: Gold-plated Spade/Banana plug

Insulation: Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP)  

Red Banana to Banana

Blue Banana to Banana