NORDOST BLUE HEAVEN iKABLE

Description

The Nordost Blue Heaven iKable is a high-quality, audiophile-grade analog interconnect cable specifically designed for portable audio devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and digital music players, to seamlessly connect them to your home audio system, car stereo, or portable speakers. As part of Nordost’s Leif series, the Blue Heaven iKable is crafted with precision engineering, premium materials, and proprietary design technologies to ensure superior signal transfer, delivering exceptional clarity, detail, and dynamic range from your portable device to your audio setup.

Overview

The Blue Heaven iKable is engineered to provide a high-fidelity connection between your portable device’s headphone output or line-out and an external amplifier or audio system. It maintains signal integrity, minimizes distortion, and reduces noise, ensuring that your music is reproduced with the utmost accuracy and transparency. Whether you’re listening at home, in your car, or on the go, the Blue Heaven iKable brings out the best in your portable audio experience, offering a noticeable improvement over standard auxiliary cables.

Key Features

• Silver-Plated, Solid-Core Conductors: The Blue Heaven iKable is constructed with silver-plated, oxygen-free copper (OFC) solid-core conductors. This combination ensures superior conductivity and efficient signal transfer, resulting in enhanced clarity, detail, and high-frequency response. The solid-core design minimizes signal loss, providing a cleaner and more precise audio signal.
• Low-Loss FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) Insulation: Nordost employs extruded FEP insulation for the Blue Heaven iKable, which offers excellent dielectric properties and minimizes signal loss. This low-loss insulation preserves the integrity of the audio signal, ensuring that your music remains accurate, detailed, and dynamic.
• Mechanically Tuned Lengths: Each Blue Heaven iKable is cut to mechanically tuned lengths, a unique process that minimizes internal microphonics and high-frequency impedance resonance. This results in optimal signal transfer and ensures that the cable delivers the best possible audio performance.
• High-Quality Connectors: The Blue Heaven iKable is equipped with gold-plated 3.5mm mini-jack connectors, providing a secure, corrosion-resistant connection that maintains signal integrity. The connectors are designed for durability, ensuring a long-lasting, reliable connection between your portable device and audio system.
• Flexible and Durable Design: The Blue Heaven iKable is designed to be both flexible and durable, making it easy to use in a variety of settings, whether you’re at home, in your car, or on the go. Its sturdy construction ensures that it can withstand the rigors of daily use without compromising audio quality.

Benefits of the Nordost Blue Heaven iKable

• Superior Sound Quality: The combination of silver-plated conductors, FEP insulation, and mechanically tuned lengths ensures that the Blue Heaven iKable delivers an exceptionally clear, detailed, and dynamic sound, allowing you to experience your music with greater fidelity and accuracy.
• Reduced Signal Loss and Distortion: The cable’s high-quality construction and advanced design minimize signal loss, distortion, and interference, ensuring that your audio signal remains pure and unaltered from your portable device to your audio system.
• Versatile Connectivity: The Blue Heaven iKable is compatible with a wide range of portable devices, including smartphones, tablets, digital music players, and laptops, making it a versatile solution for connecting your device to any audio system.

Ideal Use Cases

• Connecting Portable Devices to Home Audio Systems: The Blue Heaven iKable is perfect for audiophiles who want to connect their smartphones, tablets, or digital music players to their home audio systems without compromising sound quality.
• Car Audio Integration: For those who want to enjoy high-fidelity sound from their portable device in their car, the Blue Heaven iKable offers a noticeable improvement over standard auxiliary cables, providing a cleaner and more detailed audio experience.
• Portable Speaker Setups: The Blue Heaven iKable is ideal for connecting portable devices to external speakers, ensuring that your music retains its full clarity, detail, and dynamic range.

How to Integrate the Blue Heaven iKable into Your System

1. Connect one end of the iKable: Insert one of the 3.5mm connectors into the headphone output or line-out jack of your portable device (e.g., smartphone, tablet, digital music player).
2. Connect the other end to your audio system: Insert the other 3.5mm connector into the input jack of your home audio system, car stereo, or portable speaker.
3. Ensure secure connections: Make sure both connections are snug and secure to maintain optimal signal transfer and audio performance.
4. Enjoy your music: Start playing your music from your portable device and experience the improved sound quality delivered by the Blue Heaven iKable.

Who Should Consider the Nordost Blue Heaven iKable?

The Blue Heaven iKable is ideal for:

• Audiophiles who want to experience the best possible sound quality when connecting their portable devices to an external audio system.
• Music enthusiasts who want to upgrade from standard auxiliary cables and enjoy improved clarity, detail, and dynamic range in their portable audio setup.
• Car audio lovers looking for a high-quality connection between their smartphone or digital music player and their car stereo system.

Comparison with Other Nordost iKables

• Blue Heaven vs. White Lightning iKable: The Blue Heaven iKable offers superior performance compared to the White Lightning iKable, with silver-plated conductors, more advanced insulation, and better overall construction. This results in enhanced clarity, detail, and bass response, making the Blue Heaven a worthwhile upgrade.
• Blue Heaven vs. Heimdall 2 iKable: While the Heimdall 2 iKable provides an even higher level of performance with advanced technology such as Micro Mono-Filament construction and superior conductors, the Blue Heaven offers an excellent balance of quality and value, making it an ideal choice for those who want high-quality sound without the higher price tag.

Technical Specifications

• Conductors: Silver-plated, solid-core, oxygen-free copper (OFC)
• Insulation: Extruded FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene)
• Geometry: Mechanically tuned lengths
• Connectors: Gold-plated 3.5mm mini-jack connectors
• Lengths: Available in various lengths to suit different setup needs

The Nordost Blue Heaven iKable is an outstanding choice for anyone looking to elevate their portable audio experience. By incorporating high-quality materials, advanced design features, and Nordost’s proprietary technologies, the Blue Heaven iKable ensures that your portable device’s audio signal is transmitted with exceptional accuracy, clarity, and detail.

Whether you’re connecting your smartphone to your home stereo system, integrating your tablet with your car audio setup, or simply want to enjoy high-fidelity sound from your digital music player on the go, the Blue Heaven iKable provides a significant improvement over standard cables. Its versatility, durability, and superior sound quality make it a valuable addition to any portable audio setup, ensuring that you experience your music the way it was meant to be heard.

Whether through facilitating access to our music libraries, upgrading the caliber of sound or simply mobilizing a once stationary practice, the portable audio device has transformed the way in which we enjoy music. The convenience of these new technological advances has not easily swayed true audiophiles when it comes at the expense of quality. Thankfully, the new Blue Heaven LS iKable now makes it possible to enjoy hifi quality sound from your portable audio devices.

The new Blue Heaven LS iKable combines silver-plated, OFC solid core conductors with Nordost’s innovative precision FEP extrusion technology, greatly reducing dielectric properties in order to increase signal speeds and accuracy in signal transfer. The result is a detailed and dynamic reproduction of your digital music files that has previously been impossible to achieve at this price point.

• 4 x 24 AWG stranded silver-plated 99.9999% OFC conductors
• Fully shielded braid
• FEP insulation
• Gold plated, full metal jacket shell connectors available in:
◆ 3.5mm stereo mini (Neutrik) to 3.5mm stereo mini (Neutrik)
◆ 3.5mm stereo mini (Neutrik) to (2x) RCA (Neutrik)
◆ 3.5mm stereo mini (Neutrik) to (2x) XLR (Neutrik)
(Standard XLR wiring is Pin 1: Chassis Ground, Pin 2: +, Pin 3: –)
▶ Add €100.00 retail per additional 1 meter