NORDOST VALHALLA 2 USB 2.0 CABLE

NORDOST VALHALLA 2 USB 2.0 CABLE

Introduction:

The Nordost Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable is a premium digital cable designed for audiophiles who demand the highest level of performance from their computer-based audio systems. As part of Nordost’s esteemed Valhalla 2 series, this USB cable combines advanced technology, superior materials, and meticulous craftsmanship to ensure the most accurate and pristine data transfer between digital devices. Whether you’re streaming high-resolution audio files or using a USB DAC, the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable guarantees that every detail of your music is transmitted with unmatched clarity and precision.

Key Features

• Dual Mono-Filament Technology: The Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable employs Nordost’s proprietary Dual Mono-Filament technology, which suspends each conductor in a virtual air dielectric. This minimizes insulation contact, reduces capacitance, and ensures faster signal transmission, providing exceptional accuracy and detail in audio playback.
• High-Purity Silver-Plated Conductors: Constructed with solid-core, silver-plated 99.999999% OFC (Oxygen-Free Copper) conductors, the Valhalla 2 USB Cable offers superior conductivity and signal transfer. Silver-plating enhances the conductivity and ensures that your audio signal is transmitted with the highest level of fidelity.
• Mechanically Tuned Construction: Nordost’s mechanically tuned design reduces internal microphonic effects and resonance, ensuring a balanced and distortion-free signal transfer. This results in a cleaner, more detailed, and dynamic audio experience.
• Precision-Matched Signal Pairing: The Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable features precision-matched data and power conductors, ensuring that digital signals are transmitted with minimal jitter and timing errors. This guarantees that the integrity of your digital audio files is preserved, resulting in a more natural and engaging sound.
• Gold-Plated USB Connectors: The cable is terminated with high-quality, gold-plated USB connectors that provide a secure, corrosion-resistant connection. These connectors ensure reliable data transfer and compatibility with a wide range of USB devices, including DACs, computers, and music servers.

Technical Specifications

Benefits of Nordost Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable

• Unmatched Signal Accuracy: The combination of silver-plated conductors and Dual Mono-Filament technology ensures that digital signals are transmitted with the highest level of accuracy and speed, resulting in a more detailed and lifelike audio experience.
• Exceptional Clarity and Resolution: The precision-matched signal pairs and advanced shielding minimize jitter and noise, allowing you to hear your music with greater clarity, detail, and dynamic range.
• Superior Build Quality: The Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable is built to the highest standards of craftsmanship, ensuring a durable and reliable connection that maintains optimal performance over time.

Ideal Applications

The Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable is ideal for:

• High-End Computer Audio Systems: Perfect for audiophiles who use a computer-based audio setup, this cable ensures the cleanest possible transfer of digital signals from your computer to your DAC.
• Professional Studio Environments: Ideal for use in recording and mastering studios, where maintaining the integrity of digital audio signals is critical for accurate monitoring and playback.
• High-Resolution Music Streaming: Whether streaming high-resolution audio files or playing music from a USB hard drive, the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable ensures that every bit of data is transmitted with the highest level of accuracy.

How the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable Enhances Your Audio Experience

By integrating the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable into your digital audio system, you will experience:

• Improved Audio Detail and Clarity: The cable’s silver-plated conductors and air dielectric design allow for a more accurate transfer of digital signals, resulting in enhanced clarity and detail in your music.
• Reduced Jitter and Timing Errors: The precision-matched signal pairs ensure that digital audio data is transmitted with minimal timing errors, reducing jitter and preserving the integrity of your audio signal.
• Noise-Free Signal Transfer: With advanced shielding against electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio-frequency interference (RFI), the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable delivers a clean, noise-free connection, allowing you to hear your music as it was meant to be heard.

Comparing Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable to Other USB Cables

The Nordost Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable offers several distinct advantages over standard USB cables:

• Superior Conductivity: While most USB cables use basic copper conductors, the Valhalla 2 employs silver-plated conductors, which offer better conductivity and signal transfer, resulting in a clearer and more detailed sound.
• Advanced Air Dielectric Design: The Dual Mono-Filament technology minimizes signal loss and capacitance, ensuring a faster and more accurate data transfer compared to conventional USB cables.
• Precision Engineering: Nordost’s meticulous construction and attention to detail ensure that the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable delivers consistent, high-quality performance, making it an essential component for any high-fidelity digital audio system.

The Nordost Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable is the ultimate choice for audiophiles and professionals who demand the highest level of performance from their digital audio systems. With its advanced technology, premium materials, and superior craftsmanship, this cable ensures that your digital audio signals are transmitted with unmatched clarity, accuracy, and speed.

By investing in the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable, you are ensuring that every nuance and detail of your digital music is preserved, allowing you to experience your favorite recordings with a new level of realism and emotion. Whether you’re streaming high-resolution audio files, using a USB DAC, or working in a professional studio environment, the Nordost Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 Cable provides a transformative upgrade that brings out the best in your digital audio system.

The Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 is revolutionary in terms of USB cable design. For the first time, Nordost is introducing a flat, twin-axial geometry to its USB cables. This innovative layout allows the two signal wires to run parallel, compared to the standard twisted-pair configuration, shortening the signal path and drastically increasing transfer speeds. Another advantage to a twin-axial design is the ability to separate the power (positive) and ground (negative) legs of the cable, isolating them from signal and each other, minimizing the effects of harmful interference. The Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 then goes one step further, taking the precaution of isolating the signal conductors, by covering each power leg with a finely-braided, silver shield, as well as enclosing both signal conductors in their own braided, silver shields. Each shield is connected to the metal plated backshell, completely ridding the cable of any EMI or RFI and eliminating noise.

In addition to these advances, the Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 still uses all of the main technologies and design structures that Nordost has built its reputation upon. The V2 USB 2.0 is constructed using four, 19 AWG solid core, silver-plated copper conductors. Each conductor, both power and signal, is suspended in Nordost’s proprietary Dual Mono-Filament technology, increasing the dielectric and mechanical damping, while maintaining the overall flexibility of the cable. It also takes advantage of Nordost’s unique, mechanically tuned lengths, reducing internal microphonics and high-frequency impedance resonance.

Of course, as with all of our Valhalla 2 cables, the V2 USB is completed with a HOLO:PLUG® connector. Nordost purpose-built this fully shielded, low mass USB connector to ensure that there is no loss of signal transfer from the cable to the connectors themselves. The Valhalla 2 USB 2.0 is the only solution on the market capable of elevating digital streaming, attaining true, reference-quality results.