6-613: Nordost Corporation is an American high-end audio company founded in 1991 by Joe Reynolds, Vincent Garino, and Jeffrey Garino and based in Holliston, Massachusetts . Nordost manufactures and sells audio and video cables , interconnects and audio accessories. Its products are distributed in 72 countries. Nordost was founded in Massachusetts in 1991. Nordost manufactures audio cables, power distribution systems, grounding systems and resonance control devices. All Nordost cables use
12-515: A flexible FEP insulation originally developed by DuPont . Nordost products are manufactured in the USA. Nordost produces a range of cable products. In addition to power cables and interconnect cable, digital cable and loudspeaker, the company also manufactures the QRT line of products, power purifiers and grounding systems and a line of Sort System vibration controlling devices. In 2014, Nordost introduced
18-558: A good representation of how the equipment sounds to each person. For example, some valve (vacuum tube) amplifiers produce greater amounts of total harmonic distortion , but this type of distortion (2nd harmonic) is not as disturbing to the ear as the higher-order distortions produced by poorly designed transistor equipment. The validity of certain products is often questioned. These include accessories such as speaker wires utilizing exotic materials (such as oxygen-free copper ) and construction geometries, cable stands for lifting them off
24-506: Is sometimes referred to as cost-no-object equipment. Audiophile equipment can encompass the full range from budget to high-end in terms of price. The fidelity of sound reproduction may be assessed aurally or using audio system measurements . The human sense of hearing is subjective and difficult to define. Psychoacoustics is a division of acoustics that studies this field. Measurements can be deceiving; high or low figures of certain technical characteristics do not necessarily offer
30-420: The first American-made HDMI cable. High-end audio High-end audio is a class of consumer home audio equipment marketed to audiophiles on the basis of high price or quality, and esoteric or novel sound reproduction technologies. The term can refer simply to the price, to the build quality of the components, or to the subjective or objective quality of sound reproduction. The distinction between
36-425: The terms high end and high fidelity is not well defined. According to one industry commentator, high-end could be defined as, "Gear below which's price and performance one could not go without compromising the music and the sound." Harry Pearson , founder of The Absolute Sound magazine, is widely acknowledged to have coined the term high-end audio . High-end audio equipment can be extremely expensive. It
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