Nordost Valhalla 2 announced

What is the problem to use Nordost differently than others do? We live in a free world and a forum you have different people with different thoughts. When audio is your profession you test all the time. I have compared many times full nordost setups with partly Nordost setup with other brands. What is the problem with that?

I have sold a lot Nordost in the past. For a time I could life only from selling Nordost. When people say ; that I hate Nordost, how stuppid you can be.

I used it my way because I wanted to get a sharper individual focus. And I wanted to create a more musical mid freq. Clients had the freedom to compare full Nordost with Nordost in combination with other brands.

In audio I Always look deeper in everything. Just to create a higher level for my clients. It is about the maximum quality you can create.

Can you handle the truth or you want to hear what you would like to hear?

Who compared the old Valhalla with the new one?

Bo said : Siltech is a different story. I like there digital cables. But I did test and compare many of there cables. At the time the Valhalla powercable came out I battled often to companies with Siltech Emperor powercables. I never lost once. All the time I was the one who got the deal.

<< Siltech Emperor powercables? Never heard of.

Bo said : One important thing to notice why I got irritated by the Siltech company. I know from the shops who sell it that they raised there prices and the % for shops became higher. So they could give there clients some discount. This is not an honnest way of selling cables.

<< Mark-up and healthy discounts are common and no secret. If you are not getting decent cut buying cable means shop/seller is keeping them as profit. It is as it is.

Interconnects and loudspeakercables were Emperor and the Powercable were Siltech Ruby Moutain Hill. Valhalla was better in timing and speed compared to the best Siltech had at that time. Instruments were also better focussed.

With krell Valhalla was not a good combination. I understood why Transparent worls better In 2004 when it came out it was the powercable which could change the overwhole sound the most. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 I sold many many Valhalla powercables.

With poweramps it was not the best powercable. Audiogon people gave me Purist Audio as a good cable for poweramps. It worked a lot better than Valhalla did. More drive, more depth and a more open and musical mid freq.

Siltech lost a big part of the market in the Netherlands cause of the higher prices. And also because other brands made better cables. The distributor of Siltech in the Neterlands stopped because they were not satisfied about the quality and price.

I've been playing with cables, following each marked incarnation with great interest eversince early 80's. Cardas, MIT, TaraLabs, Siltech amongst others were literally just born then. Hundreds if not more varieties have come visit or stayed in my system at one time or another so am quite familiar with characteristics of each and just found some of your descriptives of them contradicting.. >>

Bo : Interconnects and loudspeakercables were Emperor and the Powercable were Siltech Ruby Moutain Hill. Valhalla was better in timing and speed compared to the best Siltech had at that time. Instruments were also better focussed.

<< I happen to own/using both brands. Also some Odin PCs hence my curiosity of new Valhalla2, and possibility of Odin2 if on the horizon.

Btw it is Ruby Hill/2, Ruby Mountain/2, or Ruby Double Crown (recent), there's never been AFAIK a Ruby Mountain Hill.

Anyway, please spare this thread and let it get back on track. Speak truth, and not what you are selling.