Nordost Valhalla 2 Digital 110 Ohm AES/EBU Cable

Digital signals are subject to extremely precise transmission and termination standards. Ensuring that your digital cables meet those standards is vital to achieving the best possible performance from high-resolution digital systems. Valhalla 2 Digital Interconnects employs our advanced Dual Mono-Filament construction to mechanically dampen its silver-plated, solid copper conductors, while also reducing dielectric contact by over 85%.

In order to achieve exact impedance matching, Nordost’s Valhalla 2 Digital leads offer a double layer of silver shielding. The 75 Ohm cable is terminated with gold-plated HOLO:PLUG® BNC connectors for correct impedance matching and is supplied with gold-plated RCA adapters, while the 110 Ohm cable uses gold-plated HOLO:PLUG® XLR connectors. Ensuring that they have the minimum effect on the digital signal, our HOLO:PLUG® connectors are designed to enhance sonic properties and maintain constant impedance throughout each cable.

It is vitally important to support your digital devices with cables that deliver the signal with the efficiency and consistency necessary to meet the demands of musical fidelity. Unfortunately, the precision and intricacy needed to produce a truly superb digital cable are out of reach for most cable manufacturers. Poor impedance matching has a dramatic impact on the accuracy with which the signal is passed from one electronic device to another. Nordost’s digital interconnects, on the other hand, implement the most advanced, proprietary technology and revolutionary techniques, ensuring the impedance matching necessary for S/PDIF and AES/EBU leads, guaranteeing the tight tolerance of characteristic impedance necessary to ensure greater musical detail, virtually unimpeded by timing errors or destructive jitter.

Valhalla 2 - Reference Cables

Valhalla 2 is Nordost’s Reference range of high performance audio cables. These exemplary products benefit from three decades of research and development, resulting in cutting edge production techniques and technological innovations.

Like all Nordost cables, Valhalla 2 starts with a strong foundation: silver-plated, OFC solid core conductors, extruded FEP insulation, a mechanically tuned construction, and asymmetrical grounding. However, that is just the beginning. The advances made from that jumping-point are astounding.

V2 cables use Dual Mono-Filament technology, Nordost’s patented process of separating the conductor from its FEP insulation. During production, each conductor is intricately and uniformly wrapped in a twisted pair of FEP Mono-Filament, before being encased in an extruded layer of high quality FEP. This intricate process allows every conductor to be surrounded by its own air dielectric, which is directly responsible for the dramatic increase of signal speeds and excellent mechanical damping of the cable. This technology, along with innovative, proprietary HOLO:PLUG® connectors, designed to be the best possible interface between the cable and component, propels the capabilities of the reference range to previously unattainable levels. 

SPECIFICATIONS

• Insulation: High purity class 1.1 extruded Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP)
• Construction: Mechanically tuned spacing, length and Dual Mono-Filament, Twin-axial design
• Conductors: 2 x 18 AWG
• Material: Silver-plated 99.999999% solid core OFC
• Capacitance: 10.5pF/ft
• Impedance: 110 Ohm
• Overall Shield Coverage: 98% Total coverage with 2 layers of silver-plated shielding
• Velocity of Propagation: 89%
• Termination: Gold-plated true 110 Ohm HOLO:PLUG® XLR