NORDOST FREY 2 ANALOG INTERCONNECTS

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Norse 2 Series interconnects deliver a level of performance not previously possible at their price points.

Description

The Nordost Frey 2 Analog Interconnects are top-of-the-line, high-performance cables from Nordost’s Norse 2 series, meticulously designed to deliver exceptional signal transfer and unparalleled sound quality between your audio components. These interconnects embody the pinnacle of Nordost’s engineering, combining cutting-edge materials, innovative design technologies, and precision craftsmanship to ensure that your audio signals are transmitted with the utmost clarity, accuracy, and fidelity. The Frey 2 Analog Interconnects are ideal for discerning audiophiles and music enthusiasts who demand the best from their high-fidelity audio systems, providing a listening experience that is exceptionally detailed, dynamic, and immersive.

Overview

The Frey 2 Analog Interconnects are engineered to maintain signal integrity, reduce interference, and minimize signal loss, ensuring that your audio signals are delivered cleanly and accurately between components. With the incorporation of Nordost’s proprietary Micro Mono-Filament technology, silver-plated conductors, and high-quality insulation, these interconnects provide a noticeable improvement over standard cables and even other high-end options, delivering an unparalleled level of transparency, resolution, and dynamic range.

Key Features

  • Micro Mono-Filament Technology: The Frey 2 Interconnects utilize Nordost’s proprietary Micro Mono-Filament technology, a groundbreaking design that involves wrapping each conductor with a fine FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) thread, creating a virtual air dielectric around the conductor. This design minimizes insulation contact, reduces capacitance, and improves signal speed, resulting in enhanced detail, clarity, and overall sonic performance.
  • Silver-Plated, Solid-Core Conductors: The Frey 2 Interconnects are constructed with silver-plated, solid-core oxygen-free copper (OFC) conductors, ensuring superior conductivity and minimal signal loss. The silver plating enhances high-frequency performance, delivering more detailed, transparent, and refined sound reproduction, making it ideal for high-resolution audio sources.
  • Low-Loss FEP Insulation: Each conductor is insulated with extruded FEP, providing excellent dielectric properties and minimizing signal loss. This low-loss insulation preserves the integrity of your audio signal, ensuring accurate and distortion-free transmission, resulting in a more natural and lifelike listening experience.
  • Precision Twisted Pair Design: The cable features a precision-twisted pair construction, maintaining consistent impedance and reducing crosstalk between conductors. This design reduces noise and interference, ensuring a clean and accurate transfer of audio signals, contributing to the cable’s overall sonic clarity.
  • High-Quality Connectors: The Frey 2 Analog Interconnects are terminated with gold-plated RCA or XLR connectors, providing a secure, corrosion-resistant connection. These premium connectors maintain signal integrity and ensure reliable performance, making them suitable for the most demanding audio systems.

Benefits of the Nordost Frey 2 Analog Interconnects

  • Superior Sound Quality: The combination of Micro Mono-Filament technology, silver-plated conductors, and FEP insulation ensures that the Frey 2 Interconnects deliver exceptionally clear, detailed, and dynamic sound, allowing you to experience your music with the highest level of fidelity.
  • Reduced Signal Loss and Interference: The advanced insulation, Micro Mono-Filament design, and precision engineering minimize signal loss, noise, and interference, ensuring that your audio signal remains pure and unaltered as it travels between components.
  • Enhanced Versatility: The Frey 2 Interconnects are compatible with a wide range of audio components, making them an ideal solution for connecting high-fidelity analog sources such as CD players, DACs, preamplifiers, and amplifiers.

Ideal Use Cases

  • High-End Stereo Systems: The Frey 2 Analog Interconnects are perfect for audiophiles who want to achieve the ultimate sound quality from their stereo system, ensuring accurate and detailed signal transfer between components.
  • High-Resolution Audio Sources: These interconnects are well-suited for high-resolution audio sources, such as DACs, CD players, and turntables, as they preserve the full detail and dynamics of the original recording.
  • Connecting Premium Analog Audio Components: The Frey 2 Interconnects are suitable for connecting various high-fidelity analog audio devices, such as CD players, DACs, preamplifiers, and amplifiers, making them a versatile addition to any top-tier audio system.

How to Integrate the Frey 2 Analog Interconnects into Your System

  1. Identify the components to connect: Determine which audio components in your system require analog interconnects (e.g., DAC to amplifier, preamplifier to power amplifier).
  2. Choose the appropriate connector type: Select the RCA or XLR version of the Frey 2 Analog Interconnects based on the input/output connectors on your audio components.
  3. Connect the cables: Insert one end of the interconnect into the output of the source component (e.g., CD player, DAC) and the other end into the input of the receiving component (e.g., preamplifier, amplifier).
  4. Ensure secure connections: Make sure all connections are tight and secure to maintain optimal signal transfer and audio performance.

Who Should Consider the Nordost Frey 2 Analog Interconnects?

The Frey 2 Analog Interconnects are ideal for:

  • Audiophiles who want to experience the highest level of sound quality and are looking for a premium upgrade to their current interconnect cables.
  • Music enthusiasts seeking to achieve more detail, clarity, and dynamics in their high-fidelity audio system.
  • Anyone with a top-tier audio setup who wants to ensure accurate and interference-free signal transfer between their audio components.

Comparison with Other Nordost Analog Interconnects

  • Frey 2 vs. Heimdall 2 Analog Interconnects: The Frey 2 Interconnects offer a significant upgrade over the Heimdall 2 model, featuring more advanced conductor technology and improved insulation. This results in even greater detail, transparency, and soundstage, making the Frey 2 an excellent choice for those who want to push their audio system’s performance to the next level.
  • Frey 2 vs. Tyr 2 Analog Interconnects: While the Tyr 2 Interconnects represent the absolute pinnacle of the Norse 2 series, the Frey 2 offers nearly all the advanced technology and performance at a more accessible price point. The Frey 2 provides an exceptional balance of performance and value, making it a strong contender for audiophiles seeking premium-quality interconnects.

Technical Specifications

  • Conductors: Silver-plated, solid-core oxygen-free copper (OFC)
  • Insulation: Extruded FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) with Micro Mono-Filament technology
  • Cable Geometry: Precision-twisted pair design
  • Termination Options: Gold-plated RCA or XLR connectors
  • Mechanically Tuned Lengths: Cut to specific lengths to optimize signal transfer
  • Lengths: Available in various lengths to suit different system configurations

The Nordost Frey 2 Analog Interconnects are an exceptional choice for audiophiles and music enthusiasts who seek the highest level of audio performance from their high-fidelity audio system. By incorporating advanced materials, precision engineering, and Nordost’s proprietary Micro Mono-Filament technology, these interconnects ensure that your analog audio signals are transmitted with unmatched clarity, detail, and accuracy.

Whether you’re connecting a high-end CD player to your amplifier, integrating a DAC into your stereo system, or adding a turntable to your setup, the Frey 2 Analog Interconnects offer a significant improvement over standard and even many high-end cables. Their combination of extraordinary sound quality, versatile compatibility, and meticulous construction makes them a valuable addition to any premium audio system, ensuring that you experience your music with the highest level of fidelity, depth, and enjoyment.

Norse 2 Series interconnects deliver a level of performance not previously possible at their price points. Nordost’s proprietary Dual Mono-Filament construction, first introduced on the legendary Valhalla reference cables, creates a virtual air dielectric complete with an elegantly engineered suspension system. When combined with silver-plated OFC solid core conductors and FEP insulation throughout, the result is the ideal electrically and mechanically controlled construction for ultra-fast, low-loss signal transfer. Optimized conductor dimensions significantly extend the musical performance of the new Norse 2 Series, finally allowing your equipment to deliver its full performance potential, while the consistency of design and materials across the entire Norse 2 Series means that you can easily prioritize a system-wide solution without compromising the coherence of your cables.

Due to an increased number of conductors, the Frey 2 Analog Interconnect allows for an enhanced ground integrity, lower noise floor, greater detail, dynamic range and musical impact. Increased weight and energy at bandwidth extremes means more scale and greater drama, while at the other end of the scale, the blacker backgrounds and greater resolution increase delicacy and intimacy, allowing you to hear further into the performance, making Frey 2 the perfect interconnect for critical signal paths.

• Comes as a PAIR of cables
• Shielded analog interconnect with 97% braid
• 5 x 24 AWG silver plated 99.99999% OFC solid core conductors
• FEP insulation
• Dual Mono-Filament design
• 28.0pF/ft capacitance
• 0.055μH/ft inductance
• Nordost MoonGlo RCA or Neutrik XLR termination
(Standard XLR wiring is Pin 1: Chassis Ground, Pin 2: +, Pin 3: –)

▶ Add €50.00 retail per 5-pin or 4-pin Din connector
▶ Add €400.00 retail per additional 1/2 meter pair
▶ MONO cable available at 1/2 cost + 10%

 

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FREY 2 SPEAKER CABLES, INTERCONNECTS AND POWER

“The Nordost cables get out of the way of the music and the environment in which it was recorded. The focus is in the quality playback and not the cables elbowing for top billing. As such, they have outstanding synergy.”

– Anthony Kershaw, Audiophilia

NORDOST FREY 2 SPEAKER CABLE AND INTERCONNECTS – EVOLVING AND IMPROVING

“Frey 2 is an exceptional performer from a proven brand that through the decades has continued to evolve and improve. Audition with confidence. You will not be disappointed.”

– Neil Gader, The Absolute Sound

NORDOST – FREY 2 SPEAKER CABLES, INTERCONNECTS, AND POWER CABLES

“When the subject of conversation turns to the best cable manufacturers in the world, Nordost is usually one of the names that comes up. Their Frey 2 line combines a goodly amount of knowledge and engineering harnessed from their vaunted Valhalla cables, at an attainable price point — no mean feat, given that they were designed and are made entirely in the US. Their terrific resolving ability is married to a sound of prodigious size and scale, qualities that any listener will be able to appreciate.”

– Hans Wetzel, SoundStage! HiFi

Additional information

Model:

0.6m, 1m, 1.5m, 2m, 2.5m, 3m, 3.5m

Connectors:

XLR, RCA

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