I found some nordost blue heaven XLRs, thoughts?
To me the blue heaven and the red dawns sounded a bit bright and lacked 'meat' in the mids IMO. I had a Nordost demo case a few years back for about 30 days. That gave me a chance to really compare. For Ic's and Sc's. I settled on the Frey. To me they were positioned in the sweet spot of the Nordost line up for the money. But these were the original Norse series. When the Norse series 2 was released I ended up trading the Frey Ic's for the Tyr2. They had a much more liquid sound. I never tried the Lief Series. Also at that time I had Dynaudio C1's. I kept those Ic's and original Frey Sc up until shortly after getting the D2's.
To me the blue heaven and the red dawns sounded a bit bright and lacked 'meat' in the mids IMO. I had a Nordost demo case a few years back for about 30 days. That gave me a chance to really compare. For Ic's and Sc's. I settled on the Frey. To me they were positioned in the sweet spot of the Nordost line up for the money. But these were the original Norse series. When the Norse series 2 was released I ended up trading the Frey Ic's for the Tyr2. They had a much more liquid sound. I never tried the Lief Series. Also at that time I had Dynaudio C1's. I kept those Ic's and original Frey Sc up until shortly after getting the D2's.