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In Reply to: Nordost Blue Heaven/Kimber Hero inter. + solid state gear = posted by solda on March 21, 2006 at 12:37:56:
How good are Nordost Valhalla speaker cables considered to be in the grand scheme of things? The reason I am wondering is because I took some early-generation samples of my homemade speaker cables to CES 2006 and Lars Kristensen very generously did a comparison. Mine were obviously superior---in all the parameters that I could perceive in the thirty seconds or so that Lars played music through mine. Lars said that sure, mine did this better and that better, but he thought the Valhallas had more "musicality," or something. I didn't think so but of course I kept my mouth shut because Lars was wonderful to have the balls to do a "shoot-out" with me because no one else would. The very first thing that jumped out was how far wider the soundstage opened up, plus I was pretty sure I heard more articulation---no surprise to me considering how my cables are made. Lars (and one other visitor in the room) thought his interconnects were better than mine. Of course by now (late March 2006)I have made interconnects vastly superior to the crude early-generation interconnects I took to Vegas. Ditto with my speaker cables, for certain!) No other cable exhibitor at Vegas would give me the time of day---or as Lars put it, I had the second best cables at the show---after Nordost. He told me if other cable manufacturers would have the guts to compare my cables "they would have very long faces." That Saturday night an exhibitor locked the door and we replaced his (loaned) Vahalla speaker cables and interconnects and played mine through his tube amps and the big Maggies. World of improvement. So I am wondering and wondering and wondering how Vallhallas are ranked. After all, HP says they're they best, for whatever that's worth. I will not discuss my cables on this forum beyond what I have said here because I hope they are destined to become a commercial product. Nor am I in any hurry to disclose how they work. That will come out in time through the grapevine, or through a search of the USPTO published patent aplication but it won't come from me. I am 68-year-old hi-fi hobbiest. I did build a Goertz-like ribbon cable and took it to CES in 1985 or '86 and showed it around. A few years later Goertz got the patent on that one.
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I too had several people report a braided silver speaker cable I make on custom order to better the Nordost Valhalla's in their system.I was so shocked because the Valhalla's get so much press as the best there is....not to mention how expensive they are.I my friend truly believe your cable bettered the Valhalla.Keep your idea a secret or someone with more money will steal it and put it in production.
"If it sounds good it is good!"-Ernest Lee Farley III-
Thnak you for your encouraging words and kind remarks. Yes, I am very much afraid of someone stealing my idea. I am filing a patent, hopefully by April 1st. I hope that patent filing will protect me. My patent attorney says it will. A respected American amplifier manufacurer, who has privately evaluated my cables after signing a secrecy agreement, warns me that big cable companies may copy my invention and I won't find out unless I buy their super-expensive radically sonically-improved speaker cables and interconnects (thanks to my invention) and I cut them open to find out if they stole my idea. On the other hand my patent attorney says big companies won't take that risk because of a potentially ruinous lawsuit from me, and would prefer to license my invention instead. I hope he's right.
Someone had to say it! Make them cheap and let us know when they're available. If you need a beta tester let me know.
Rob CThe world was made for people not cursed with self-awareness
I am probably not make any at all for commercial sale. I am going to shop the invention around and look for companies to make them under license. They are good for audio, video, and data transmission applications, plus maybe a few more things.
Good luck. Not saying it can't be done, but the differences in requirements for a good video cable versus audio versus high-speed data versus digital are pretty vast. I'm not sure I've ever seen a cable that is optimized for all those things.
I adjust the parameters for the application. The fundamental novel features of the invention remain the same, of course.
good luck!!
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