Then, as noted earlier, we recommend treating
the outside of your cables with Nordost Eco3X
static dispersant for even better performance.
In addition, a little care in installation will reap
further performance dividends:
Keep signal cables away from power cords,
and where they do cross, try to space them
as much as possible and cross them at right
angles. Avoid running signal cables alongside
power cords.
Try to let interconnects hang free of contact
with walls. Lifting speaker cables off of the
floor does improve their performance, but
may not always be practical. If you do lift your
cables, always use the minimum number of
risers possible.
Do not coil spare lengths of speaker cable; you
will increase its inductance and affect your
speaker’s bass performance. If speakers are
bi- or tri-wirable, replace the supplied jumpers
with Nordost’s dedicated Norse Series Micro
Mono-Filament designs.
You can find additional details on how to
optimize system cabling and performance in
the Downloads directory at www.nordost.com.
Considerable changes take place in a cable or
component when it is first used. When your
new cable is first installed in your system the
sonic benefits will be very apparent. However,
the musical performance will significantly
improve as the cable is used, the greatest
change coming in the first 100 hours,
with smaller improvements continuing to
accumulate thereafter. In order to accelerate
this process, Nordost has developed the Vidar, a
dedicated cable burn-in machine. This puts an
extremely wideband and complex signal directly
through the cable, significantly accelerating the
conditioning process.
This essential service is available through your
local Nordost dealer or distributor.
For logistical reasons this service is not
available from Nordost’s factory.
A WORD ABOUT BURNING IN
Most Norse Series 2 cables employ the
breakthrough combination of Micro Mono-
Filament construction and silver-plated solid-
core conductors. These conductors are drawn
from high-purity, oxygen free copper, and then
heavily plated with silver. They are then highly
polished to achieve surface consistency, before
being wrapped in a thin, helical coil, the
FEP Micro Mono-Filament that supports and
spaces the extruded FEP outer jacket, reducing
dielectric contact by over 80%. These complex
processes achieve the cable designer’s Holy
Grail of excellent mechanical stability, precise
geometric accuracy and an incredibly low
dielectric constant of less than 1.38.
But in addition to its electrical sophistication,
Norse Series 2 adds significant mechanical
refinements to the mix. The dimensions,
spacing, number and topology of each cable
have been mechanically tuned to further
optimize musical performance. These new
cables are then combined with specially
modified, lightweight connectors, embodying
the same mechanical and geometrical
approach.
The result is a range of cables with
unprecedented transmission speed and phase
accuracy, wide bandwidth and remarkable
levels of musical detail. More importantly,
because that detail and dynamic information
arrives in the right order and at the right time,
the performance is much more natural and
intelligible, or – to put it another way – it’s
much easier to hear who’s playing what, which
makes your music and your system much
more enjoyable.
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