Nordost Odin Cablles Review from The Audio Beat: When Only the Best Will Do....

[ian@pmc]

I heard a Kaiser Kawero with Silicon Arts pre & power amps with a spiral groove turntable wired with Odin, and it sounded good. I've heard better though.

[Haurock]

I've been using Nordost Cables for some time now and I have no complaints. Though, I am only using the Heimdall for interconnects and will eventually upgrade my speaker cables to Heimdall.

I would be interesting to have someone demo the Odin cables with McIntosh equipment and see how they fair in comparison to other brands mentioned here.

[cmalak]

Rock...I use Heimdall ICs and speaker cables. I think they are great cables and deliver probably 70-80% of Valhallas for 1/4-1/5 cost. As for Odins, I am sure the jump from Valhalla to Odin is still quite noticeable as per Paul Bolin's review but I cannot believe it is justified by the jump in cost. It's that old adage about how expensive that last 5% of performance is to get in high end audio.

[Haurock]

Cyril

Originally Posted by cmalak

Rock...but I cannot believe it is justified by the jump in cost. It's that all adage about how expensive that last 5% of performance is to get in high end audio.

I fully agree!! +1 I am just curious as to how good they are with McIntosh.

[cmalak]

that should be "that old adage" not "all adage" (fixed it in my original text)

[Talk2me]

I heard the Odins directly after replacing the Vahallas in the exact same system. There was less grunge, hash and more "more".