NORDOST TYR 2 DIGITAL INTERCONNECTS – 75 OHM

The Nordost Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects – 75 Ohm are among the highest-performing digital cables in Nordost’s Norse 2 series, delivering an exceptional level of accuracy, speed, and clarity for digital audio connections. Designed for discerning audiophiles and professionals, the Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects incorporate Nordost’s most advanced technologies, premium materials, and meticulous craftsmanship to ensure that your digital signal is transmitted with unparalleled fidelity. These cables are specifically engineered for SPDIF digital connections requiring a 75 Ohm impedance, making them ideal for connecting high-end digital sources such as CD transports, digital music streamers, and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs).

Overview

The Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects are designed to meet the strict 75 Ohm impedance standard, which is crucial for maintaining signal integrity, reducing jitter, and minimizing signal loss in digital audio transmission. By employing advanced construction techniques such as Dual Mono-Filament technology, silver-plated conductors, and high-quality insulation, the Tyr 2 ensures a pure, interference-free, and highly accurate signal path. This results in a more transparent, detailed, and dynamic listening experience, making these cables an excellent choice for audiophiles who want the absolute best from their digital audio system.

Key Features

• Dual Mono-Filament Technology: The Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects feature Nordost’s proprietary Dual Mono-Filament technology, where each conductor is wrapped with two FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) threads, creating a virtual air dielectric around the conductor. This design minimizes insulation contact, reducing capacitance and ensuring faster, more accurate signal transmission. The result is a more detailed and transparent digital signal, with greater clarity and precision.
• Silver-Plated, Solid-Core Conductors: The Tyr 2 cables use high-purity, solid-core oxygen-free copper (OFC) conductors that are silver-plated. This combination ensures superior conductivity and minimal signal loss, allowing for a highly accurate and dynamic signal transfer. The silver plating enhances high-frequency performance, delivering improved resolution and detail in your digital audio.
• True 75 Ohm Impedance: The Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects are precisely engineered to maintain a true 75 Ohm impedance, which is essential for minimizing signal reflections, reducing jitter, and ensuring accurate data transfer in SPDIF digital audio connections. This precise impedance control ensures that your digital signal is transmitted with the highest level of fidelity.
• Dual-Layer Shielding: The cables feature dual-layer shielding to protect against electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI). This shielding keeps the digital signal free from external noise, ensuring a clean and accurate transmission path that preserves the integrity of your audio signal.
• Low-Loss FEP Insulation: Nordost utilizes extruded FEP insulation, which offers superior electrical properties and minimizes signal degradation. This low-loss insulation ensures that your digital signal is transmitted with minimal interference, maintaining the purity and detail of your audio data.

Benefits of the Nordost Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects – 75 Ohm

• Unmatched Sound Quality: The combination of Dual Mono-Filament technology, silver-plated conductors, and precise 75 Ohm impedance ensures that the Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects deliver an incredibly clear, detailed, and dynamic sound, allowing you to experience your digital audio with exceptional accuracy and realism.
• Reduced Jitter and Signal Loss: The cable’s precise impedance control, advanced shielding, and high-quality insulation minimize jitter, noise, and signal degradation, ensuring that your digital audio signal remains unaltered as it travels between components.
• Superior Build Quality: The Tyr 2 cables are crafted with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring durability, reliability, and consistent performance over time, even in the most demanding audio setups.

Ideal Use Cases

• High-End Digital Audio Systems: The Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects are perfect for audiophiles who want to achieve the ultimate level of performance from their digital audio system, ensuring that the connection between their CD transport, digital streamer, or DAC is as accurate and transparent as possible.
• Professional Audio Applications: For recording studios, mastering engineers, and other professional audio environments, the Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects provide the level of precision and signal integrity required for critical digital audio applications.
• Home Audio and Home Theater Systems: These cables are also ideal for home audio enthusiasts and home theater setups, ensuring that digital audio signals are transmitted with the highest possible fidelity, resulting in an immersive and engaging listening experience.

How to Integrate the Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects – 75 Ohm into Your System

1. Identify the appropriate input/output: Ensure that your digital audio components have compatible 75 Ohm SPDIF inputs and outputs.
2. Connect the cable to your digital source: Insert one end of the Tyr 2 Digital Interconnect into the digital output of your source device (e.g., CD transport, digital streamer, or Blu-ray player).
3. Connect the other end to your DAC or receiver: Attach the other end of the cable to the digital input of your DAC, AV receiver, or preamplifier.
4. Ensure secure connections: Make sure all connections are snug and secure to maintain optimal signal transfer and audio performance.

Who Should Consider the Nordost Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects – 75 Ohm?

The Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects are ideal for:

• Audiophiles who demand the highest level of digital audio fidelity and wish to extract every detail from their digital audio sources.
• Music enthusiasts looking to elevate the performance of their SPDIF digital audio components.
• Professional users who require the most accurate and reliable signal transmission for recording, mixing, or mastering purposes.

Comparison with Other Nordost Digital Interconnects

• Tyr 2 vs. Heimdall 2 Digital Interconnect: The Tyr 2 offers a noticeable upgrade over the Heimdall 2 Digital Interconnect, featuring Dual Mono-Filament technology and improved conductor design. This results in even greater clarity, reduced jitter, and a more dynamic soundstage, making the Tyr 2 the superior choice for those seeking top-tier digital performance.
• Tyr 2 vs. Valhalla 2 Digital Interconnect: While the Valhalla 2 represents Nordost’s flagship digital interconnect with the highest level of technology and performance, the Tyr 2 offers exceptional sound quality that comes very close to Valhalla 2’s level of refinement but at a more accessible price point. This makes the Tyr 2 an excellent option for audiophiles looking for near-reference-level performance without the premium cost.

Technical Specifications

• Conductors: Silver-plated, solid-core, 99.99999% oxygen-free copper (OFC)
• Insulation: Extruded FEP with Dual Mono-Filament technology
• Shielding: Dual-layer shielding to protect against EMI and RFI
• Impedance: True 75 Ohm (SPDIF standard)
• Termination Options: Gold-plated RCA or BNC connectors for reliable and secure connections
• Lengths: Available in various lengths to suit different system configurations

The Nordost Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects – 75 Ohm are an exceptional choice for audiophiles, professionals, and music enthusiasts who demand the absolute best in digital audio performance. By incorporating Nordost’s advanced Dual Mono-Filament technology, silver-plated conductors, and precision-engineered impedance, the Tyr 2 ensures that your digital signal is transmitted with unmatched accuracy, speed, and fidelity.

Whether you’re looking to optimize the connection between your CD transport and DAC, enhance the performance of your digital streamer, or ensure the highest level of signal integrity in a professional recording environment, the Tyr 2 Digital Interconnects deliver a truly remarkable improvement in sound quality. These cables represent the pinnacle of digital interconnect performance within Nordost’s Norse 2 series, making them an essential addition to any high-fidelity digital audio system for those who seek a pristine and lifelike listening experience.

Tyr 2 S/PDIF and AES/EBU digital leads are produced using cutting-edge technology, adherence to standards, and precision in workmanship. This extra attention given to our cables during the production phase guarantees the tight tolerance of characteristic impedance necessary to ensure greater musical detail, virtually unimpeded by timing errors or destructive jitter. At their base, both the 75 Ohm and 110 Ohm cables are constructed using silver-plated, solid core, conductors which are suspended in Nordost’s patented Dual Mono-Filament technology, creating a virtual air dielectric. They also both benefit from the implementation of mechanically tuned lengths, which have been meticulously calculated to reduce internal microphony and high frequency impedance resonance in the cable. The combination of these technologies yields cables with the extreme bandwith necessary to accomplish zero-loss data transfer.

The function of these two cables is dictated by their differences in design and build. Tyr 2 75 Ohm S/PDIF Digital Interconnects employ a coaxial design and are terminated with gold-plated Neutrik BNC connectors for correct impedance matching. All Tyr 2 75 Ohm Interconnects are supplied with gold-plated RCA adapters to accommodate their function. Tyr 2 110 Ohm AES/EBU Digital Interconnects use a twinaxial design and are terminated with gold-plated Neutrik XLR connectors, ensuring that they maintain constant impedance throughout the cabling, as well as across terminations.