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In Reply to: Time to cash in the 401K...the Nordost Odin 2's are here... posted by Mark Man on May 11, 2015 at 10:12:25:
Now we have MQA rolling out promising to be everything to every one and it seems the entire industry has drunk the Kool-Aid for Bob Stuart version of DSP.Nordost, which I always considered a reasonably fine company, no better no worse, claims, "the Odin 2 will unleash every facet of a live performance and allow listeners to fully immerse themselves in a complete and pure musical experience. Odin 2 doesn't just set the standard; it blows the standards away."
Of course, there's also John Atkinson claiming from his listening to the Vandersteen speakers at a recent show, "... the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, so powerfully physical was the presence of the singer in the room.... musically perfect across the board!"
Which should put to rest once and for all any remaining questions about Atkinson's hearing abilities, integrity, judgement, and/or motive.
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/critics/messages/7/79204.html
Where does it stop?
As with Atkinson's claims about the Vandersteen speaker, Nordost also overlooks every other part of the playback system. IOW, if you use these Nordost cables, nothing else matters, if you have Vandersteen speakers, nothing else matters, and you're listening to MQA recordings, nothing else matters.
How about this?
If I want to hear exactly what the engineers in the studio heard, then according to the "experts",
1. If I purchase Nordost cables and then I don't need the Vandersteen speaker nor MQA.
2. If I purchase Vandersteen speakers, I don't need Nordost cables nor MQA.
3. If I purchase MQA recordings and converters, I don't need Nordost cables, nor Vandersteen speakers.In case you haven't noticed, the industry "experts" are in a drunken stupor with hyperbola to say or do whatever it takes for you to keep feeding the machine, whether it's buying their products, their technologies, or subscribing to their publications. Even though they are in complete contradiction with each others' claims, they don't care because they realize we the consumer will lap up at least one flavor of the Kool-Aid, if not more than one.
Forget about morals, ethics, integrity, well-trained ears, etc. This drunken stupor started with Memorex' 1970's commercials with Ella Fitzgerald, "Is it live, or is it Memorex" slogans.
But to answer your question, only a well-heeled idiotic with untrained ears and who's stupid enough to believe Nordost's BS, is likely to buy this model of cable. Perhaps a professional basketball player or maybe brain-damaged football player, or perhaps the likes of Mikey Fremer, John Atkinson, etc., etc.
Make no mistake, for these"experts" to make these outlandish claims time and again and for us to let them get away with such outlandish claims time and again, it should be clear that "high-end" audio, from a performance perspective, clearly remains in its infancy.
In fact, it seems the only thing high-end about "high-end" audio is the hyperbola.
Edits: 05/16/15
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- More proof high-end audio, from a performance perspective is still very much in its infancy stage - stehno 14:30:16 05/16/15 (0)
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