People need to read better before they use they say that I do not like Nordost. I sold a lot of Nordost and a lot Valhalla as well. I used it my way. The thing I like is that they are different. When they started you could not compare them with any other brand. We had many different brands like Audioquest, Monster, MIT, vd Hul. They were stunning in speed and resolution. I loved it a lot. When you test many hours every single week you understand everything of a cable. I played 100% Valhalla, but I dind't like it cause of missing the involvement in the midfreq and also because instruments an voices where not extreme sharp focussed like some other brands were. But I wanted to keep the extra speed and timing. When I used loudspeakercable from Nordost and I use interconnects from brands like Kimber I could make the stage wider and deeper and get a better sharp foccus of instruments and voices. Also the mid freq. became more involving. In blind tests people Always prefer the Nordost/Kimber combi instead of full Nordost.
Nordost uses the same technique in most of there cables. You hear the same kind of properties back in all there cables. This counts for many other brands as well.
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.
I said often to the Nordost people that I found Nordost incomplete. The chnaged the sound, what I found a good thing to change.
Valhalla2 will never be a lot different in properties compared to Odin. It will not be better, they are not stuppid.
I prefer personally Audioquest cabels cause they are more complete. Even with the same set.
So what means more complete?
I Always want a big and wide stage, deep and fast low freq. with all the layers, lots of air and resolution, extreme sharp and touchable individual image of instruments and voices and an involving and open mid freq. And stunning blacks.
It is very easy to make people understand why all these parts are important. And that they make the music so much more fun to hear. When you go back to other cables I easilu can tell the difference between those two.
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.
At the end in audio it Always is about what you will get for the money you want to spend. My focus is on giving every single client the best quality for there money. That is why I like to compete in this business. You want to win and defeat those brands which are in my opinion too expensive for the money.
One of my biggest Nordost clients in the past also goes from Nordost to Audioquest. He sold his Odin cables. And no he did not buy his AQ from me. He also got not the information about Audioquest from me.
Audio and music Always will be a personal matter. Every person can do it there way. Like I do it my way and you do it your way. We all have the freedom to do how we like it to be!
