Nordost transformed everyone’s expectations 20 years ago on the audio cable performance with the original Flatline loudspeaker cable. Now here is something even more exciting.
By putting together a proven and proprietary technology and superior material, with the hard won knowledge that enabled Nordost to create the game-changing Valhalla and Odin cables. Nordost has been able to produce the new Leif (say “Life”) Series, this is an entry-level cable line that shows the beginning of a new chapter in both the way we use audio cables and the results we have with them. It’s not only what you use, but also how you use that really matters, and Leif Series has everything covered.
Let’s take a look what really makes the Leif Series cable superior. It’s both the consistency and execution. Every single cable in this range uses the same, silver-plated 99.9999% OFC solid-core signal conductors, specifically dimensioned for purpose. The cable employs the exact same Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene.
Then they take these already excellent ingredients and create elegant, minimalist designs that make the most of their qualities. The interconnects are wound in ultra-precise, shielded configurations, devoid of unnecessary padding or fillers, elements that can make a cable look more physically impressive but rob it of dynamic range, detail and vitality. The speaker cables use the unique, extruded ribbon construction, a technology that delivers superb geometrical accuracy along with the Holy Grail of cable design, low resistance, impedance and capacitance. Careful attention to the mechanical characteristics and the use of selected, low-mass terminations result in a range of cables whose musical coherence and integrity can only be bettered by Nordost themselves, Micro Mono-Filament designs.
To bolster the performance of the Leif Series in the critical power and digital applications, it deploys the Micro Mono-Filament to its max, ensuring that your musical signal gets the very best start in life. Combine that with the fact that they’ve brought those dedicated cables inside the Leif family – not just figuratively but literally, in terms of the materials and technology applied to their design – and you have a completely coherent, high-speed, low-loss cable chain, from wall socket to speaker terminals, that rewrites the rule book when it comes to the performance of cost-effective two-channel and AV systems.