Fake Nordost Odin 2 USB audio cable review - a good sounding looker!
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- It was cheap, it was on sale, it was evening and I was tired, thats my version and I will stick to it.
But its good actually, a nice and unexpected surprise!
In September I had this long chat over the mail with one of you guys (best regards, Kumar). It's was about the prices and availability of audio gear, especially in developing countries.
So anyway he made me rethink a few things and as a result I will add reviewed speaker/interconnect cable links.
We're all grownups (YT statistics tell me almost all of us are over 40), we make our own decisions.
I'm not recommending these purchases, but I also won't take that decision away from you.
Original cables are way overpriced and not really available to audiophiles not only from developing countries, but to all of us - let's be honest about it.
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Have this one for 2years now, sounds good.
@@ferryvandijk3008 wow I had no idea they were available for that long
awesome now i know which usb cable ill be getting lol i do all kinds of research on cables and can never make a choice so this helps a lot thanks!
I'm using a premium gold-plated Belkin USB with blue LEDs at each end and shielded data wires. But if you are starting off, why not get something like this
The Mark Ups on this jewellery when it passes along the supply chain and ends up in shop windows etc what shud we say 850 GBP +
@@matthewtaylor7355 and that would be anniversary sale price ;)
I had 4 different versions of this one two years ago……., where it was only replaced by the Xangsane Sterling Silver ( pure silver ) usb cable which in itself is the best sounding usb cable iv3 heard, regardless of price, where I chose to tap out cost wise at $945 makes.
Whos gonna tell him?
Tell what
@@Jdsofar 1's and 0's
@@CinnabonMcTasty ???
@@Jdsofar You cannot hear a difference. There is no difference. It's digital.
@@ToumalRakesh True but with exotic speaker wire and RCA you can. I dream of having Nordost speaker cable and RCA. I will try and buy Nordost tonearm wire when I buy a new turntable.
I used to own fake Odin cables, power cords and IC's, they all sound the same - very detailed and clean with huge depth and slightly thin treble. Actually I owned genuine Nordost Valhalla as well and fake Odins were not worse in some aspects even better so I sold Valhallas but in IC fake Odins needed connectors replacements to sound hi-end (the fake WBT's were crappy and it was the bottleneck of the entire cables IMO).
@marcinwasilewski5414 the cheap RCA connectors may well be the reason why I was not particularly impressed by the Odin RCA cables!
@@rontoolsie will have to check it then with some amphenol and neutriks I have somewhere..
Marcin love your music. I'm listening to Live right now. 😁
@@andrewstaub2132 and Marcin doubles as football/soccer player too :)
@k4syx not the neutrik, try something else.
I use a shielded 4m Supra USB cable because I necessarily have to have that distance between my laptop and my DDC convertor. It's said that such lengths (up to 15m in fact) are OK for the Supra, and my evaluation is that 4m is indeed OK. The price (£65) is bearable.
The "Nordost" is pretty I suppose, but would probably be around the same price for 4m if they do it, and wouldn't be shielded.
@@johncallaghan3097 yes the long runs are different story, pricewise and noise wise. I don't know if any "audiophile" manufacturer actually does runs that long
Hey, this is the exact same cable I am using in my current hifi setup. I bought it at aliexpress.
So now I understand why my dongle dac misbehaved until I changed the OTG cable for a DDHiFi one.
I have two of them as 50cm ethernet cable. They replaced some of the "better" (7 €) Amazon cable. They sound clearly better from start, but getting even better after some extensive burn in time. One of the golden ones I use as AES EBU cable. Sounds realy nice.
I am not too sure an unshielded line level interconnect cable is well suited to be a USB cable...apart from the lack of shielding, the needed impedance of 100 Ohms is probably way off. Certainly in SPDIF cables an impedance mismatch demonstrably produces unwanted reflections that superimpose over the original signal.
Having said that, this USB cable has been highly praised for its subjective performance regardless of what its measured performance is like.
The helical spiraled construction here may somewhat reduce the need for shielding.
I have a set of these Fauxdin RCA interconnects, and find them to outperformed by equivalently priced SKW ones.
Unshielded stuff has some audio benefits, just look at vovox cables...
@@rontoolsie yes I was actually surprised that's it's not bad as I expected, but pretty good. Spiral pattern works also for Nordost power cables too.
@@realmcerono I had some Vovox XLRs a few years ago, pretty good.
Try a lush^3 usb cable... Incredible. Can tweak the shield orientation and it absolutely makes a difference.
Greetings, the information is much appreciated because not all of us have the possibility of purchasing expensive items and devices.
I bought one over a year ago, unfit it didn't work for me. I really like the Odin RCA and Cat 8. Thought they sounded neutral and clean.
Eye diagram better as thousand words. Not even USB High-Speed logoed.
Nice looking cable for sure
@@annebokma4637 yes the bling is strong with this one. I needed something cheap and short and maybe better than printer cable - so very serious reasons here - but it turned out to be pretty good actually.
@@k4syx but can it handle full color prints too? 😂😎
@@annebokma4637 and if you'll copy your FLAC over it it will do noise reduction too :)
@@k4syx my wife found the perfect noise reduction... She turns the power off at the fuse box 😞😎
Mały tip który znacznie poprawi twoją wymowę. W angielskim „i” wymawia się jak polskie „y”. Np. Sick = syk.
I enjoy the accent!
Serio? A ja bardzo lubię jak Właściciel tego kanału mówi swoim stylem, jakoś wszyscy rozumieją i nikt się nie czepia więc po kiego ch... się czepiasz? Masz coś do powiedzenia w sprawie Audio? Nie, to wypad na wykłady z literatury angielskiej. Taki tip dla Ciebie...
This is such a waste of time I’m sorry I clicked on it,never again