Are Nordost really the Rolls Royce of cables?

Quatrofil and Valhalla are awesome, friggin supernatural.

That said, if your system is already overly bright these might not be the ones for you.

Oddly, I found that I can be happy with cheaper speaker cables (Analysis Plus Oval 9 work fine in my system) but no interconnects I've tried come close to the Quatrofil. I don't know why. I have had good success with Goertz Silver Sapphire and Harmonic Tech Silway II at a fraction of the cost of Quattrofil but at used prices I prefer the Quattrofil.
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it is entirely possible that some who have not liked the quatro fil, found them to be so objectionable because they revealed how truly awful their system actually was...

Bob bundus you have it backwards.
I had JPS Superconductor + Audioquest Opal Wireworld Gold Eclipse III Coincident CST Nordsot Quattro Fil in my humble system. The Wireworld Gold Eclipse was the winner but it was just so little better than the Coincident that for 1/5th the cost the Coincident was a no Brainer. Everyone chose the Nordost Quattro Fil Last of the bunch.The JPS was very good also as was the Opal. The Quattro was not up to snuff.
Goes to show you that Nordsot is the best marketers in the BIZ. In ttodays world is is not the best product that wins Its the product that is best marketed. Nordost is the BOSE of the cable bussines. They with clever marketing have people convinced that $ equate to better sound. A total mis representation.
When I got back in this crazy hobby 4 years ago i thought that way.
Then I would go listen to big buck systems and leave feeling empty.
The I would go listen to a 5K system and my feet would start tapping. I was confused at first.
How could this be. Well it was a reality. Big bucks did not allways mean great sound.
Then as time went on i realized there is a big group of people out there that are into bragging on how much they spend.
And the Nordost of the world to relieve these people of the money they need to spend so they can brag.
Have had more than a few of these types come over listen to my humble system and go home wondering why there 20 30 50 75 K systems dont sound as musical as mine.
Simple I put things toghther based on how they sounded.
They just figured more money more money better sound. Wrong.

The Stereophile review found them a bit lean in the midrange as I recall. May have been their system, though.

Steve, which Nordost cable did they review and in what issue ? I don't remember seeing that specific one. I'd like to read it and compare notes with whomever wrote the article. Sean
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