NORDOST BLUE HEAVEN TONEARM CABLE +

The Nordost Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + is a high-quality, audiophile-grade tonearm cable designed to deliver exceptional signal transfer between your turntable’s tonearm and phono stage, ensuring a pure, transparent, and detailed analog audio experience. As part of Nordost’s Leif series, the Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + incorporates advanced design features, premium materials, and Nordost’s proprietary technologies to eliminate signal loss, interference, and noise, making it an ideal upgrade for any vinyl enthusiast looking to maximize the performance of their turntable setup.

Overview

The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + is engineered to provide a low-capacitance, high-speed signal path between the tonearm and phono stage, maintaining the integrity and clarity of the delicate signals generated by your turntable’s cartridge. It is constructed with high-purity conductors, advanced shielding, and specialized grounding to minimize signal degradation and preserve the full dynamics and detail of your vinyl records. The “+” in the name indicates the addition of separate ground whips and a detachable ground wire, offering more versatile grounding options and further reducing hum and interference.

Key Features

• Silver-Plated, Solid-Core Conductors: The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + is built using solid-core, silver-plated oxygen-free copper (OFC) conductors. This combination ensures excellent conductivity, allowing for efficient and accurate signal transfer. The silver plating enhances high-frequency performance, resulting in a more detailed and refined audio output.
• Low-Loss FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) Insulation: Nordost uses extruded FEP insulation, which provides superior electrical properties and minimizes signal loss. This low-loss insulation ensures that the delicate signals generated by your cartridge are transmitted with accuracy and fidelity, preserving the nuances and dynamics of your vinyl recordings.
• Dual Mono-Filament Construction: The cable features Nordost’s Dual Mono-Filament technology, which involves wrapping each conductor with FEP threads to create a virtual air dielectric. This minimizes dielectric contact, reducing capacitance and signal loss, resulting in faster signal transmission and enhanced sound clarity.
• Advanced Shielding: The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + is equipped with dual-layer shielding to protect against electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI). This shielding ensures that the signal remains clean and free from noise, maintaining the integrity of your analog audio signal.
• Versatile Grounding System: The “+” designation includes a detachable ground wire and ground whips, allowing you to connect or disconnect grounding as needed. This versatile grounding system helps eliminate hum and interference, providing a quieter background and improved signal purity.

Benefits of the Nordost Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable +

• Improved Sound Quality: The combination of silver-plated conductors, Dual Mono-Filament construction, and FEP insulation ensures that the Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + delivers a highly detailed, transparent, and dynamic sound, allowing you to experience your vinyl records with greater clarity and realism.
• Reduced Noise and Interference: The cable’s advanced shielding and grounding system minimize noise, hum, and interference, ensuring that your analog signal remains pure and unaltered from the tonearm to the phono stage.
• Optimized Signal Transfer: With its low capacitance and high-speed signal transmission, the Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + ensures that the delicate audio signals generated by your cartridge are transferred with minimal loss or degradation.

Ideal Use Cases

• High-Quality Turntable Setups: The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + is perfect for audiophiles looking to upgrade the connection between their turntable’s tonearm and phono stage, resulting in improved sound quality and detail.
• Vinyl Enthusiasts: This cable is ideal for anyone who wants to experience the full potential of their vinyl collection, with enhanced clarity, dynamics, and reduced background noise.
• Home Audio Systems: The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + can be used in any home audio system that features a turntable and phono stage, providing a significant upgrade over standard tonearm cables.

How to Integrate the Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + into Your System

1. Disconnect your current tonearm cable: Carefully remove the existing tonearm cable from your turntable’s tonearm and phono stage inputs.
2. Attach the Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable +: Connect the tonearm cable to your turntable’s output and the corresponding inputs on your phono stage, ensuring a secure connection.
3. Utilize the ground wire if needed: Attach the detachable ground wire between your turntable and phono stage to eliminate any hum or interference, adjusting the grounding setup until you achieve the best sound quality.
4. Ensure all connections are secure: Double-check all connections to make sure they are tight and properly seated.

Who Should Consider the Nordost Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable +?

The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + is ideal for:

• Audiophiles who want to experience the highest level of performance from their turntable setup and wish to upgrade from standard or lower-quality tonearm cables.
• Vinyl enthusiasts who are looking to improve the sound quality, detail, and dynamics of their vinyl playback system.
• Home audio enthusiasts who want to reduce noise, hum, and interference in their analog audio setup for a cleaner, more detailed listening experience.

Comparison with Other Nordost Tonearm Cables

• Blue Heaven vs. White Lightning Tonearm Cable: The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + offers a noticeable improvement over the White Lightning model, with more advanced insulation, superior conductors, and the addition of the Dual Mono-Filament technology, resulting in enhanced clarity, detail, and signal purity.
• Blue Heaven vs. Heimdall 2 Tonearm Cable: While the Heimdall 2 Tonearm Cable represents a step up in Nordost’s lineup, offering even more advanced technologies such as Micro Mono-Filament construction and higher-quality conductors, the Blue Heaven provides excellent performance and value, making it an ideal choice for those looking for a high-quality tonearm cable without the investment required for the Heimdall 2.

Technical Specifications

• Conductors: Silver-plated, solid-core, oxygen-free copper (OFC)
• Insulation: Extruded FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene)
• Construction: Dual Mono-Filament design
• Shielding: Dual-layer shielding for EMI and RFI protection
• Termination: Available with various terminations, including RCA, DIN, and XLR connectors
• Grounding: Includes detachable ground wire and ground whips for flexible grounding options
• Lengths: Available in various lengths to suit different turntable setups

The Nordost Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + is a high-performance cable that offers a significant upgrade for any turntable setup. By incorporating advanced technologies like Dual Mono-Filament construction, silver-plated conductors, and versatile grounding options, this cable ensures that your analog audio signal is transferred with unmatched accuracy, clarity, and fidelity.

Whether you’re an audiophile looking to extract every detail from your vinyl collection or a vinyl enthusiast seeking to reduce noise and improve signal purity, the Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + will elevate your listening experience to a new level. It represents an excellent balance of performance and value within Nordost’s range, making it an ideal choice for those who want to enjoy the full potential of their vinyl records.

The tonearm lead is one of the most critical audio cables in an analog system. The fragile nature of the signals it carries demands a purpose-built, low capacitance conduit, in order to maximize the authentic and natural musical reproduction that LPs offer.

The Blue Heaven Tonearm Cable + uses a twisted pair cable design to create a left and right channel, which are individually shielded in order to eliminate inter-channel crosstalk. It also employs a separately shielded, silver-plated bond wire, wrapped in Micro Mono-Filament, which runs alongside the left and right channel to help minimize noise from the line. However, the most exciting aspect of this cable design is its revolutionary grounding solution. Nordost has introduced detachable, silver-plated ground whips, complete with Micro Mono-Filament technology, to further enhance this groundbreaking cable. These ground whips completely eliminate any noise that could be introduced during signal transfer, regardless of the unique construction of the components found in each individual sound system.