NORDOST SORT SYSTEMS SORT LIFT

Description

The Nordost Sort Lift is an innovative resonance control and cable support system designed to elevate and optimize the performance of high-end audio systems. As part of Nordost’s Sort Systems range, the Sort Lift is specifically engineered to reduce the negative impact of vibrational and electrical interference on your audio cables, ensuring a cleaner, clearer, and more dynamic sound. This accessory is a must-have for audiophiles and professionals who seek to maximize the potential of their high-fidelity systems.

Key Features and Benefits

1. Cable Elevation and Isolation: The primary function of the Sort Lift is to elevate your audio cables off the ground, which helps to reduce the effects of static charges, vibrational interference, and electromagnetic interference (EMI). By lifting the cables, the Sort Lift ensures that they are isolated from floor-borne vibrations and other disruptive influences, resulting in a purer signal transmission.
2. Unique Floating Spring Design: Each Sort Lift is equipped with a spring-loaded floating mechanism that allows the top section of the Sort Lift to adjust and move in response to the vibrations of the floor and the cable itself. This dynamic design minimizes the transmission of vibrations through the cable, ensuring that your audio signal remains as clean and unaltered as possible.
3. Nordost’s Resonance Control Technology: The Sort Lift integrates Nordost’s resonance control principles, which are designed to direct and dissipate unwanted vibrations away from the audio cables. By using Nordost’s proprietary technology, the Sort Lift reduces the impact of resonances that can muddy or distort your audio signal, leading to improved clarity and detail.
4. Durable and Versatile Construction: The Sort Lift is made from high-quality materials, including a stainless steel post and a polymer base, ensuring durability and stability. Its adjustable height makes it suitable for use with a variety of cable sizes and configurations, providing flexibility in different audio setups.
5. Minimal Footprint: The Sort Lift’s design is sleek and unobtrusive, making it easy to integrate into any audio environment. It supports cables without taking up excessive space, allowing you to maintain a clean and organized setup.

Who Is This Product For?

• Audiophiles: Ideal for enthusiasts who want to optimize their high-end audio systems and experience the highest level of sound fidelity.
• Hi-Fi Enthusiasts: Suitable for those looking to enhance their audio setup by reducing cable interference and improving signal purity.
• Audio Professionals: Perfect for sound engineers, studio technicians, and professionals who require accurate signal transmission in their work environment.

Typical Applications

The Nordost Sort Lift is designed for use in various high-fidelity audio setups, including:

• Supporting Speaker Cables: Elevates speaker cables off the floor, reducing interference and improving signal integrity, resulting in clearer, more dynamic sound reproduction.
• Organizing Interconnects and Power Cables: Helps to manage interconnects, power cords, and other cables in a hi-fi system, ensuring they remain untangled, organized, and free from unwanted vibrational influences.
• Isolating Cables in Professional Audio Environments: Ideal for use in studios, listening rooms, and other high-performance audio spaces where maintaining signal purity is essential.

Benefits of Using the Nordost Sort Lift

• Improved Sound Clarity and Detail: By elevating and isolating cables, the Sort Lift minimizes the impact of floor-borne vibrations and static charges, resulting in a cleaner signal path and enhanced audio clarity.
• Enhanced Dynamics and Soundstage: The reduction in vibrational interference allows your audio system to deliver a more expansive soundstage, with better dynamics, separation, and definition.
• Optimized Cable Management: The Sort Lift helps keep your cables organized and prevents them from resting on the floor, reducing the potential for signal degradation and ensuring a neat, professional-looking setup.

How to Use the Nordost Sort Lift

1. Placement: Place Sort Lifts at regular intervals along the length of your audio cables, ensuring that they are evenly supported and elevated off the ground. The recommended spacing is typically every 2 to 3 feet, but this can be adjusted based on your setup.
2. Adjust the Height: Ensure that the spring-loaded top of each Sort Lift is properly adjusted to accommodate the weight and diameter of your cables. This will help maximize the effectiveness of the resonance control.
3. Experiment and Fine-Tune: You can experiment with the placement of the Sort Lifts to achieve the best sonic results, as every audio system and environment may respond differently.

Why Choose the Nordost Sort Lift?

• Superior Vibration Control: The spring-loaded, floating design effectively isolates cables from vibrational energy, leading to improved signal transmission and sound quality.
• Cleaner, More Transparent Audio: By reducing static charges and floor-borne interference, the Sort Lift ensures that your audio system delivers a more detailed, dynamic, and lifelike performance.
• High-Quality Construction: Made from durable materials, the Sort Lift is built to last, providing long-term benefits for your audio system.

The Nordost Sort Lift is an essential accessory for anyone looking to elevate their audio experience by addressing the often-overlooked issue of cable resonance and interference. By isolating and supporting your cables, the Sort Lift allows your audio components to perform at their best, delivering cleaner, more detailed, and dynamic sound. Whether you’re an audiophile striving for the ultimate listening experience or a professional seeking precise signal transmission, the Sort Lift provides a simple yet highly effective solution for optimizing your audio setup. Investing in the Sort Lift means taking an important step towards achieving the full potential of your high-fidelity audio system.

Nordost’s Sort Lift® is the preeminent cable support in the consumer electronics industry, and is the latest addition to our Sort System. By utilizing a patent pending floating spring design, the Sort Lift® enhances the sonic performance of loudspeaker cables, power cords, and interconnects, by minimizing the points of contact that cables make with the ground and reducing boundary effects, without negatively affecting the resonant properties of the cables themselves.

The Sort Lift® is composed of two integral components: the base and the springs. The base is a stable, anodized, aluminum disk, designed to inhibit any transference of electrical charge from the floor to the cable and eliminate static build-up on the dielectric itself. This base supports the proprietary Floating Spring System. The Floating Spring System uses a flexible, titanium alloy spring-wire, which makes up both the support wings and tension wire supports. In both elements, the alloy wire is coated in FEP, mirroring the design of Nordost cables and making the supports an extension of the cable jacket, eliminating any electrical interference, while allowing the cables to maintain their natural resonance properties.

Sort Lifts® are provided in packs of two. They are intended to be spaced between 0.5 and 1 meter apart in distance, so that the cable does not come in contact with the floor. The spacing may depend on the weight and flexibility of the cable being supported. While designed to be used primarily with Nordost cables, any audio cable will benefit from using the Sort Lift®. Noticeable effects include an elevated sound stage, improved dynamic range, increased detail in low frequency reproductions and more natural timbre to the sound.

• Comes in packs of 2
• Raises cables off the ground using minimal points of contact with the cable
• Proprietary Floating Spring System uses titanium alloy and FEP coating
• Anodized aluminum base
• Reduces boundary effects and electrical interference
• Inhibits transference of electrical charge and rids the dielectric of static build-up
• Elevates sound stage, improves dynamic range, and increases detail in low frequency reproductions

Total height: 84mm
Diameter: 100mm
Cable height off of floor: 24mm