NORDOST BLUE HEAVEN ETHERNET CABLE

Description

The Nordost Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is a high-performance, audiophile-grade Ethernet cable designed to deliver exceptional speed, accuracy, and signal integrity for streaming high-resolution audio and video in home audio systems. As part of Nordost’s Leif series, the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable incorporates advanced technologies, premium materials, and meticulous construction to ensure that data transfer between network-connected audio components is as clean, accurate, and interference-free as possible. This cable is ideal for audiophiles, home theater enthusiasts, and anyone who demands the highest quality streaming experience from their digital music and video sources.

Overview

The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is specifically engineered to handle high-bandwidth data transmission with minimal loss and interference. It is designed to provide a stable, high-speed connection between networked audio components such as streaming devices, digital music players, network-attached storage (NAS) drives, routers, and smart TVs. By using precision-engineered conductors, advanced insulation, and efficient shielding, Nordost ensures that the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable delivers a pristine data signal, resulting in clearer, more detailed, and more dynamic audio and video playback.

Key Features

• High-Purity Solid-Core Conductors: The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is constructed with 23 AWG solid-core conductors made from high-purity, oxygen-free copper (OFC). These solid-core conductors provide superior conductivity and signal integrity, ensuring efficient data transfer and reducing signal loss and distortion.
• Precision Twisted Pair Design: The cable features a precision-twisted pair construction, which helps maintain consistent impedance and reduces crosstalk between conductors. This design minimizes data errors and interference, ensuring that the digital signal remains clean and unaltered.
• Low-Loss FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) Insulation: Nordost uses extruded FEP insulation around each conductor, providing excellent dielectric properties and minimizing signal loss. This insulation ensures that data signals are transmitted accurately and without degradation, maintaining the integrity of your audio and video streams.
• Dual-Layer Shielding: The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable features dual-layer shielding to protect against electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI). This shielding ensures that external noise and interference are kept at bay, allowing the data signal to remain pure and stable.
• High-Quality Gold-Plated Connectors: The cable is terminated with durable, high-quality gold-plated RJ45 connectors. These connectors ensure a secure, corrosion-resistant connection, maintaining optimal signal transfer and data integrity.
• Flat Cable Design: The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable features a flat, flexible design, making it easy to install in tight spaces, run along baseboards, or tuck under carpets without compromising performance.

Benefits of the Nordost Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable

• Improved Streaming Quality: By providing a clean and stable data connection, the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable ensures that high-resolution audio and video streams are delivered with maximum fidelity, resulting in clearer sound, better detail, and more accurate imaging.
• Reduced Jitter and Data Errors: The precision-twisted pair design, solid-core conductors, and advanced shielding minimize data errors, jitter, and interference, ensuring that your digital audio signals are transmitted accurately and without degradation.
• Versatile Compatibility: The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is compatible with a wide range of networked audio and video components, making it an ideal solution for any home audio or home theater setup.

Ideal Use Cases

• High-Resolution Audio Streaming: The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is perfect for audiophiles who stream high-resolution audio from networked devices such as music servers, DACs, or NAS drives. It ensures that the digital audio signal is delivered with maximum clarity and accuracy.
• Home Theater Systems: For home theater enthusiasts, the cable provides a stable and interference-free connection for streaming high-definition video content, ensuring that movies, TV shows, and games are experienced with the best possible picture and sound quality.
• Network Integration: The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable can be used to connect any networked audio or video component, such as smart TVs, gaming consoles, or routers, providing a reliable and high-speed data connection.

How to Integrate the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable into Your System

1. Identify the devices to connect: Determine which networked audio or video components in your system require an Ethernet connection (e.g., music server, DAC, router, smart TV).
2. Connect the cable: Insert one end of the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable into the Ethernet port of your source device (e.g., router or switch) and the other end into the target device (e.g., streamer, DAC, or smart TV).
3. Ensure secure connections: Make sure the RJ45 connectors are fully inserted and secure in the Ethernet ports to maintain optimal signal transfer.
4. Enjoy improved streaming: Start streaming your favorite high-resolution audio or video content and experience the enhanced performance provided by the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable.

Who Should Consider the Nordost Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable?

The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is ideal for:

• Audiophiles who want to ensure that their networked audio components deliver the highest possible sound quality.
• Home theater enthusiasts looking to improve the streaming quality of their high-definition video content.
• Anyone with a high-resolution audio or video streaming setup who wants to minimize signal degradation, interference, and jitter.

Comparison with Other Nordost Ethernet Cables

• Blue Heaven vs. White Lightning Ethernet Cable: The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable offers a noticeable upgrade over the White Lightning model, with better conductors, insulation, and shielding. This results in improved data transfer accuracy, reduced jitter, and clearer audio and video quality.
• Blue Heaven vs. Heimdall 2 Ethernet Cable: While the Heimdall 2 Ethernet Cable offers even higher performance with advanced Micro Mono-Filament technology and superior construction, the Blue Heaven provides excellent performance and value, making it a great choice for most high-quality streaming applications.

Technical Specifications

• Conductors: 23 AWG solid-core, oxygen-free copper (OFC)
• Insulation: Extruded FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene)
• Shielding: Dual-layer shielding for protection against EMI and RFI
• Connectors: Gold-plated RJ45 connectors
• Cable Geometry: Precision-twisted pair design
• Design: Flat and flexible cable for easy installation
• Lengths: Available in various lengths to suit different setup requirements

The Nordost Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is a premium solution for anyone looking to optimize their high-resolution audio or video streaming experience. By incorporating high-purity conductors, advanced insulation, and efficient shielding, the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable ensures that your digital data is transferred with exceptional accuracy, speed, and stability.

Whether you’re an audiophile seeking the best possible sound quality from your networked audio components, a home theater enthusiast looking to enhance the clarity and detail of your video streams, or simply want to ensure that your home network is performing at its best, the Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable offers a significant upgrade over standard Ethernet cables. Its combination of superior build quality, advanced technology, and versatile compatibility makes it a valuable addition to any high-performance audio or video system, ensuring that you experience your digital content with the highest fidelity possible.

High quality Ethernet cables are the key to achieving a suitable interface when connecting first-rate AV components to a home network. The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is the solution that digitally-driven hifi enthusiasts have been waiting for. This groundbreaking cable allows Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices and music streaming to be fully integrated into a hifi system, while improving its sonic performance.

In order to perfect their Ethernet cable design, Nordost has employed technologies and methods proven effective throughout the years in the consumer electronics industry and modified them to fit this new, highly specified market. The Blue Heaven Ethernet Cable is comprised of eight, 24 AWG, polymer insulated, solid core copper conductors, arranged in a twisted pair design. These pairs are individually shielded before the bundle is wrapped in two additional layers of braided shielding. This shielded foiled twisted pair (s/ftp) design fully eliminates cross-talk while improving noise resistance and maintaining the integrity of data files being transferred over long distances.

Provided with factory-terminated, shielded 8P8C/RJ45 connectors, this cable assures that no loss is incurred in the field. Each cable is constructed with the quality of fabrication, precision and consistency needed to ensure a guaranteed improvement over standard issue, mass-produced, low precision Ethernet cables.

• 24 AWG solid core copper conductors
• Shielded and Foiled Twisted Pair Design (s/ftp)
• Fully Shielded Dual Braid
• High-Density Polymer Insulation
• Terminated with shielded 8p8c/RJ45 connectors
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