The compact, “plug-top” construction of the Qv2’s mechanically tuned high-tech housing allows it to be inserted into any free socket on your system’s AC line – although adding directly to a QBASE maximizes the benefits. Available in either US NEMA or Eu Schuko configurations, and compatible with 50/60Hz 100 – 240V supplies, standard adaptors can be used to employ the Qv2 in other markets.

The Qv2 employs a mechanically tuned carbon fiber housing and high quality gold plated connection pins. It is built entirely in the USA and carries a two-year warranty.

Tyr 2 Loudspeaker Cable & Norse 2 - The new, second generation Norse Series loudspeaker cables deliver a level of performance not previously possible at their price points. Nordost’s proprietary Micro Mono-Filament construction creates a virtual air dielectric complete with an elegantly engineered suspension system. Combined with silver-plated OFC solid-core conductors and extruded, flat ribbon FEP insulation, the result is the ideal electrical and mechanically controlled construction for ultra-fast, low-loss signal transfer between amplifier and loudspeakers.

Tyr 2 represents the top of the Norse 2 tree, and its amazing musical performance challenges our Reference series Valhalla designs. Combining natural dynamics with real world weight and scale, the results are spectacular without being hyped or exaggerated, allowing performances and recordings, as well as the electronics reproducing them, to deliver every last ounce of music that’s on the disc. With advanced mechanical tuning to aid the exceptional electrical performance of the MMF construction, Tyr 2’s only competition comes from further up the Nordost range.

Norse Series – the fast track to superior musical performance.

• Micro Mono-Filament construction
• 26 x 22 AWG silver-plated 99.99999 OFC copper solid core conductors
• Extremely precise, mechanically stable extruded ribbon construction
• High Performance FEP Internal Insulation reduces dielectric absorption and increases signal speed
• Terminated with high quality gold plated Nordost Z plugs or spade connectors.
• Manufactured and hand-built in the USA

Furutech, founded in 1988, designs and manufactures an extraordinary range of A/V cables made with extremely high purity OCC single-crystal oxygen-free copper. We have several complete lines of analog and digital, power and coaxial cables available in terminated and bulk quantities. We make a wide range of highest quality OEM A/V connectors and other signal transfer parts including power, speaker, IEC and specialized Hyper Audio Quality outlet receptacles. All metal components all treated with Furutech’s proprietary 2-Stage Alpha Cryogenic and Ring Demagnetization Process during manufacture that ensures the lowest achievable levels of distortion and noise.

Furutech offers a full line of elegantly engineered and designed power distribution and filter components made with an attention to detail found nowhere elsewhere. Furutech knows each and every part of the chain, no matter how small, is as important as the next, so we lavish maximum attention on all aspects of AC power transfer. As with cables, the separate parts go through the complete Alpha Process, and also benefit from the effects of GC-303, an applied material that absorbs EMI (Electromagnetic Interference). Our Reference Line of cables and interconnects also include this anti-EMI technology.

Our multistep and highly specialized techniques result in extremely low-noise, fast and undistorted signal transfer that begins with the incoming AC mains power, an important factor overlooked by many.

Furutech’s total awareness of the smallest details involved in optimizing AC power delivery allows our Power Distribution and Filtering components to deliver a greater sense of power, dynamics, and resolution, with cleaner, blacker backgrounds and a larger, more stable soundstage, vivid tonal colors and deeper extension at both ends of the frequency range. Delicacy, refinement and nuance shine through, along with micro- and macro-dynamics that leave you breathlessly engaged. Video displays of all types exhibit greater, sharper resolution with less ghosting, color shift, “snow”, or vertical and horizontal lines.

Attention to every aspect of the recording and playback chain led us to introduce the remarkable Demag LP & Disc Demagnetizer, an essential component for any serious audio and video enthusiast. It quickly and effectively demagnetizes optical and analog media using Ring Magnet technology that ramps the power up, then down. It should also be used to demagnetize connectors and cables! Furutech’s Room Diffuser Tuning Panels (FRD) are an elegant solution for graceful yet fully effective acoustic room tuning. PC-2 Pure Disc Cleaner and small-particle Nano Liquid Connector Treatment are available for those perfectionists looking for the ultimate in sound and image quality.

At Furutech, everyone here is passionately devoted to reaching the highest watermark in reference-grade A/V cables, OEM parts and accessories for home and car audio where Furutech maintain a very strong presence. Our mission is building the absolutely best products imaginable whatever the effort involved, and offering them at a price/performance ratio that deeply satisfies every purchaser. Furutech’s Pure Transmission Design Concept improves every element of signal transmission, from the AC to the speaker.

Nordost Odin Supreme Reference Power Cord - The Odin Power Cord applies Nordost’s latest TSC (Total Signal Control) technology to significantly advance the audio performance AC wiring. It uses six close tolerance 16AWG, 99.99999% oxygen free copper conductors, each covered by an 85 micron layer of extruded silver, suspended in a dual micro mono-filament matrix and enclosed in the TSC shield. The result is a new level of power transmission efficiency coupled to superb mechanical damping and rejection of external RFI/EM interference. The separate, solid-core conductors eliminate strand interaction, hot spots and other artifacts that can degrade performance, while the extreme precision with which the TSC tubes are manufactured and arranged ensures complete consistency in performance. Let Odin feed your system and get ready for improved noise floor and resolution, increased transparency, dynamic range and freedom from grain, more believable sound staging, more natural life and musical dynamics, a breathtaking range of tonal colours. Suddenly the music will step away from the system producing it, taking on a life of its own, becoming a real performance – all because the power on which your system depends is cleaner and arriving quicker.

Nordost Odin Supreme Reference Analog Interconnect – The Odin Supreme Reference Interconnect uses eight of our revolutionary Total Signal Control (TSC) tubes – each carrying a 23 AWG Dual Mono-Filament conductor with 85 microns of extruded silver over 99.999999% oxygen free copper. The eight conductors are precisely wound in a spiral pattern around a central spacer, which contains two extruded silver over OFC drain wires to create a cable of unprecedented consistency and geometrical precision. The result is perfect shielding yet manageable flexibility. Odin Interconnect cables are either offered with a special oversized 10 mm WBT NextGen silver-plated, copper RCA connector or a specially machined rhodium-plated Furutech XLR connector for balanced operation. These connectors offer a low-mass design that reduces eddy currents and produces the best available interface and impedance matching between the cable and the attached components.

Specifications:

Insulation: High purity class 1.003 extruded Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP)
Construction: Mechanically tuned lay, length and Dual Mono-Filament, TSC design
Conductors: 8 x 23 AWG
Material: Silver-plated 99.999999% solid core OFC
Capacitance: 19.0pF/ft
Inductance: 0.07?H/ft
Overall Shield Coverage: 100% Individually shielded total coverage
Velocity of Propagation: 90%
Termination: Furutech rhodium-plated XLR