I have a pair of Red Dawn interconnects I use for my tuner. I specifically bought it to add a little top end sparkle to the tuner sound. It is brighter than Blue Heaven.
Nordost Blue Heaven vs Heimdahl 2 vs Harmonic Technologies Para S - II
My wife
and I just moved into a new house. I
have a Mac 6900 integrated amp and Focal 1027 speakers acquired in 2007. Prior to this move my cable has been Kimber
8TC’s purchased at that time and I was very happy with them – the system
sounded great. Because of the new living
room configuration, I will be forced to place the speakers in a location where the
8TC’s would be visible, a situation not acceptable to my wife or myself. There is a large area rug in front of where
the speakers would go which can hide flatline cables like one of the Nordost
cables. I am leaning towards the Blue
Heavens. My question is this: would one consider the Nordost Blue Heavens equivalent
in sound quality to the 8TC’s? Although price
doesn’t necessarily determine relative quality, the Blue Heavens (in 2021) would
cost approximately the same for the same length of 8TC’s that I paid in 2007. Another question: if I took the plunge and
went for the Heimdahl 2’s in the Norse 2
category of cables (twice the price of the Blue Heavens), would that be
overkill for a system like mine? Or would
they be too bright and fatiguing? I have read reviews comparing the Red Dawn
cables (one step above the Blue Heavens in this Leif family) and generally
reviewers thought they were brighter than the Blue Heavens. I wouldn’t want to
pay double for the Heimdahl 2’s and find
them even brighter than the Red Dawns. Lastly, Harmonic Technologies make a flatline speaker
cable – the Para S II but I’ve never seen a review of them. Any thoughts on
these? I would appreciate members’ views on this. Thanks.