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Post Subject: Nordost and the schmaltsPosted by Romy the Cat on: 4/15/2009
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 Paul S wrote:
but it sounds like you just described the Nordost Valhalla cables, just after they break in, just before the HF shimmer short circuits. Or, maybe Nordost has fixed the part where they age badly with the Mk II, SE, the same way PAD fixed the old fluid Dominus with the Ferrox? Anyway, I'm not kidding about the optimal-state Nordost Valhalla as a candidate for your FM, and I guess you are past sticker shock by now.
Perhaps, I never had Valhalla.

I had a few Red Downs in past and the rest revision or Reference. It was in 1998 I believe. The Reference was expensive cable but I had sources that made form a fraction of price. Then out relation when down after I posted somewhere on- line a catchy phrase about Nordost that was much picked by people with ears. I said that Nordost Reference sounds like it has 3 wires: silver for HF, copper for MF and wood for bass. The guys got pissed as do not feed me with Nordost anymore. Anyhow, if a cable cost more than 20%-30% of retail prices then it not worth to try. The cables have huge markup up and pretty much cost of any cable shall be divided by 8. The Valhalla looks like very expensive and if I need a “crappy zippy cable” then I think it shell be ultra chips cable not the ultra expensive cable. The old HT cables, the “Bill Gates” versions, I think would be a good candidate. I need to fish a pair of them…. the HT were not bright but bity and schmaltzy. I think Nordost shall be just hipper-extended but not schmaltzy…

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