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Nordost Baldur vs Red Dawn

I purchased a pair of 6 meter Nordost Baldur XLR's to replace a pair of Nordost Blue Heaven XLR's to go between my Pass Labs X1 preamp and my Pass Labs X250.5 amp. There seems to be a huge amount of extra bass with the Baldur but I'm loosing some transparency that the Blue Heavens had. The Blue Heavens where 2 meters long and the Baldurs are 6 meters long. This extra length enables me to place my amp between my speakers and other gear along the side wall.
I'm wondering if the smaller amount of transparency in the Baldur is a characteristic of the cable or perhaps because of the extra length compared to the shorter Blue Heavens?
I'm courious how a Red Dawn interconnect would compare to the Baldur.
By the way I'm using a Blue Heaven IC between my Cd player and preamp

Thanks,

Bob
bob_alders

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bob_alders OP
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Actually instead of saying transparency perhaps I should have put it the way you did. I'm not finding the Baldur to be bright in my system but as far as the highs and the mids go I agree with you ,they seem toned down compared to the Blue Heavens. I have no experiance with other Nordost offerings however I am wondering what the Red Dawns would do, there's a pair up for sale that I'm thinking about in this longer length that I need, perhaps they would bring back the highs and mids that the Blue Heavens had.
You may have answered my question already, sounds like my experiance may be the charicteristic of the Baldur cable and not so much that it was 3 times longer than the Blue Heavens.
Thanks for your reply.
bob_alders OP
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Being a newcomer to Nordost it was a surprise to find a cable that was so capible in the low end. Most of my past systems would have really benefitted with this cable. My Martin Logan Prodigys may not require the extra low end capibility of the Baldur . It's a very nice cable though and would do wonders in many systems.
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