NORDOST VALHALLA 2 BI-WIRE JUMPERS

NORDOST VALHALLA 2 BI-WIRE JUMPERS

Introduction:

The Nordost Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers are meticulously engineered to offer the ultimate connection solution for loudspeakers with bi-wire terminals. Often, the connection between high-frequency and low-frequency terminals is overlooked, but it plays a crucial role in maintaining signal integrity and optimizing speaker performance. These jumpers, part of Nordost’s renowned Valhalla 2 series, are designed to bridge this gap with the same level of precision, materials, and advanced technology found in their high-end speaker cables. This overview will explore the features, specifications, and advantages of incorporating Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers into your audio system.

Key Features

• Dual Mono-Filament Technology: Like the rest of the Valhalla 2 series, the Bi-Wire Jumpers utilize Nordost’s proprietary Dual Mono-Filament technology, which suspends each conductor in a virtual air dielectric. This reduces insulation contact and provides faster signal transmission, ensuring that your speakers receive a clean and accurate signal.
• Silver-Plated, Solid-Core Conductors: The Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers are constructed with silver-plated, solid-core 99.999999% Oxygen-Free Copper (OFC) conductors, providing exceptional conductivity and signal purity. This design ensures that no detail is lost in the transfer between speaker terminals.
• Precision Termination: These jumpers are terminated with Nordost’s low-mass HOLO

  ® connectors, available in both spade and banana plug configurations. This ensures a tight, secure, and high-quality connection between your speaker terminals.

• Mechanically Tuned Construction: The Bi-Wire Jumpers feature a mechanically tuned design that minimizes internal microphonic effects and resonance, resulting in an accurate and balanced signal transfer between speaker terminals.

Technical Specifications

Benefits of Nordost Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers

• Enhanced Signal Transfer: The combination of silver-plated, solid-core conductors and Dual Mono-Filament technology ensures that the signal transferred between your speaker terminals is clean, accurate, and free from degradation. This results in a more coherent and detailed sound, with improved clarity across all frequencies.
• Superior Build Quality: The use of high-quality materials, including the silver-plated conductors and HOLO

  ® connectors, ensures that the jumpers provide a secure, corrosion-resistant connection that maintains optimal performance over time.

• Improved Soundstage and Imaging: By replacing standard brass or metal jumpers with the Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers, you’ll experience a noticeable improvement in the overall soundstage, imaging, and musicality of your system.

Ideal Applications

The Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers are perfect for:

• Bi-Wirable Loudspeakers: Designed to be used with high-end loudspeakers that have separate terminals for high and low-frequency drivers, these jumpers provide a seamless connection that enhances the performance of your speakers.
• High-End Audio Systems: Ideal for audiophiles who want to extract the maximum potential from their speaker setup, ensuring that their investment in high-quality speakers and amplifiers is not compromised by subpar jumpers.
• Upgrading Speaker Performance: Even if you’re not ready to invest in bi-wiring or bi-amping, the Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers are a cost-effective way to upgrade your speaker performance by improving the connection between terminals.

How the Valhalla 2 Jumpers Elevate Your Listening Experience

By integrating the Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers into your system, you will notice:

• Greater Clarity and Detail: The superior conductivity and low-loss design of these jumpers ensure that even the finest details of your audio signal are preserved, allowing you to hear more depth and detail in your music.
• Balanced Frequency Response: The accurate signal transfer provided by the Valhalla 2 Jumpers ensures a balanced connection between the high and low-frequency drivers, resulting in a more cohesive and natural sound.
• Increased Musicality: The enhanced signal integrity and reduced signal loss contribute to a more engaging and dynamic listening experience, allowing your music to flow with greater ease and emotion.

Comparing Valhalla 2 Jumpers to Standard Jumpers

The Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers offer several advantages over the standard jumpers that come with most speakers:

• Superior Conductors: While many standard jumpers use basic metal or brass connectors, the Valhalla 2 Jumpers use high-purity silver-plated conductors, providing significantly better conductivity and signal transfer.
• Advanced Design: The Dual Mono-Filament air dielectric technology used in the Valhalla 2 Jumpers reduces dielectric absorption and signal loss, resulting in a clearer and more detailed sound compared to typical jumpers.
• Precision Connectors: The HOLO® connectors ensure a more secure and low-resistance connection, further enhancing the performance of your speakers.

The Nordost Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers are an essential upgrade for anyone looking to optimize the performance of their bi-wire loudspeakers. By utilizing the same advanced technologies and materials found in the Valhalla 2 Speaker Cables, these jumpers ensure that your speakers receive the highest quality signal, resulting in improved clarity, detail, and overall musicality.

For audiophiles and music enthusiasts who are serious about achieving the best possible sound from their system, the Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers offer a significant improvement over standard jumpers, making them an invaluable addition to any high-end audio setup. With their precision engineering, premium materials, and exceptional build quality, the Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers help you experience your music as it was meant to be heard.

For true hifi enthusiasts, a system isn’t something that simply gets slapped together without thought. Each component, treatment and cable is chosen specifically in order to reach the ultimate goal: produce the best sound possible. Why would the last few inches of cabling receive any less attention at the risk of ruining the result you have devoted so much time and expense on?

Valhalla 2 Bi-Wire Jumpers are the optimal solution for achieving exceptional sound by replacing the standard metal plates and generic wires supplied with most bi-wire loudspeakers. V2 Bi-Wire Jumpers are even a huge improvement from Nordost’s Norse 2 and Reference Jumpers. With V2 Bi-Wire Jumpers, not only are you maintaining the same technology and cable philosophy, as you do with Nordost’s other jumpers, but you are essentially purchasing an extension of your speaker cables, ensuring an identical sonic signature throughout your system.

• Set of 4 Jumpers
• Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) insulation
• 14 x 22 AWG silver plated 99.999999% OFC solid core
conductors
• Dual Mono-Filament design
• 10.9pF/ft capacitance
• 0.125μH/ft inductance
• HOLO:PLUG® spade (8.5mm) or Nordost Z-type banana termination