Nordost vs. Transparent...which is better?

I will weigh in with my experiences. I am currently auditioning a pair of Nordost Heimdal IC's on my CDP to amp and I am quite impressed. They don't sound anything like the Blue Heaven's that I previously tried which were somewhat thin and whitish sounding. Amazing sustain and air to the upper end, but not very well balanced.

The Heimdall sounds very very good with my Audio Refinement CDP, and I've tried many cables with it (both power and IC). The bass is simply the best I have heard with it. Very deep and clean with excellent heft and purcussive attack. The midrange is really enjoyable too in that I have the feeling of detail, but it seems to push back and smooth over any graininess or edge to voices or brass that I have experienced with some of my recordings. I find I can really crank it up where I could not before on those CD's.
The highs are sweet with good color, though here not quite as open or extended as the Transparent cables I've tried, and not quite as rich in tonal color (Transparent Music Link 100, Plus and Super). But I've found that many CD's that were bright and hard to listen to with the other cables, sounded very accurate with the Heimdalls but quite listenable.
Other things that I really like about them are excellent dynamics and imaging. My system images well anyway, but the Heimdal's take it to a new level.

They are expensive, but I plan to purchase them if I can get them at a good price.

If a cable is good,you can use it through the whole system without problems.
So this means that Nordost is not neutral.
I vote for use of the same brand through your system,this way you'll get the most out of your system.
But some may disagree.

I have Transparent Audio Reference digital RCA cable and Acoustic Revive DSIX digital active RCA cable costing far less then TA, so that I could do direct comparison.
I am going to keep Acoustic Revive which clearly outperform
TA.

I too have auditioned both aginst my reference KCAG. The Transparent won and now all my IC's are Transparent Super Balanced. I recently tried a Transparent Ultra vs Kimber Bi-Focal XL vs Synergistic Resolution Ref speaker cable and the Synergistic edged out the rest by a hair. Go figure.

I know I'm chiming in on this thread pretty late, but I was hoping someone could help me out before I go to the trouble of demoing cables in the home. I have Wilson Sophia 2's with Classe Cam400 monoblocks, Classe CDP202 Player, Meridian G02 Preamp, and an LP12. The whole system is with Transparent Ultra Balanced IC's and Ultra Speaker Cable with Reference Power Chords. I've had transparent for awhile and am considering a switch but I haven't been convinced to do so yet. I was thinking of doing valhalla Ic's and speaker cable but am a bit leary of it being "edgy" and bright on my system. any comments are welcomed