Nordost Super Flatline Gold

[JoelSim]

Just picked 2 lengths of 4m, 4/4 terminated off fleabay for £34. Looking forward to reviewing it against my current QED SA XT.

Anyone got any thoughts as to what I should expect?

 

[Ragworm]

I would expect a lot more detail. When I had a pair of B&W 603S3s, I replaced Silver Anniversary (not XT) with the Nordost Superflat biwire and found the difference almost overpowering at first. The system really breathed after that. Let us know how it works out.

 

[Anonymous]

Hello Ragworm,

Sorry for using this to comunicate to you but seems is the only way possible. I would like to talk with you about the Atlas speaker cables as I have at home to try out the Atlas Hyper 3.0 and the QED Revelation, but I was thinking about the biwire version, do you have it and if so how it sounds? Seems that the Hyper 3.0 is the best bass performer, so what would be the difference to the 2.0?

Greetings

P.S. - If possible would like to exchange ideas with you on e-mail, mine is: jcosta1968@hotmail.com

 

[lordmortlock]

JoelSim:
Looking forward to reviewing it against my current QED SA XT.

Not in your sig I notice. Didn't cut the mustard?

 

[JoelSim]

lordmortlock:JoelSim:
Looking forward to reviewing it against my current QED SA XT.

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Not in your sig I notice. Didn't cut the mustard?

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I've not tried it yet actually. It's such a nightmare to get behind my rack and speakers to change 8 plugs and 8 on the speakers too. I should bite the bullet really and do it.

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[lordmortlock]

Lol sounds familiar - I've got a pile of 'bargains' from ebay that I either havent tried yet or havent got round to putting back on the site!

I'd be interested to know what you think when (if!) you try it.

 

[JoelSim]

lordmortlock:Lol sounds familiar - I've got a pile of 'bargains' from ebay that I either havent tried yet or havent got round to putting back on the site!I'd be interested to know what you think when (if!) you try it.

It needs a bloody good sort out really but will take a while.

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[the record spot]

Experience with Blue Heaven suggests the Flatline Gold might be rather open, revealing and very detailed. The danger of it being too bright might be tempered by your Arcam kit, but only auditioning can tell you that. Either way, you can flog it on for a profit. £34 is a bargain for 8m of the stuff plus terminated too!

 

[Dermondo]

Hi, I also have B&W DM603's with arcam amp & cd player, I used to have QED silver anniversary bi-wire for my front including my centre, when I got the Nordost flatline gold I could hear the difference immediately, any backgound noise got notibly quietly, the soundstage opened up and basically cleaned up the previous sound and even with my metal dome tweeters it does not add any undue harshness and brightness to the sound.

I would not use that particaular cable again not to say it is a bad cable but the nordost with the rest of my set up suits my listening ear.

I am using the existing Qed cables in my B&W rears and they do a fine job at the moment.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi,

i'm using the non biwire version with monitor audio RX2's from an avi s21 with a cyrus dacx+ front end and it sounds Great!

 

[bemaniac]

Do cables like this really work then? I got told off for spending money on my crimson cable but I thought it improved the resolution of my music without improving the resolution of my files if you know what I mean but the girlfriend said I'm mad and one is the same as the next. The only experience of same as the next I'd ever agreed with was after we spent £120 on a hdmi cable (nordost wyrewizard) only to spend the next 3 days laughing about it and making jokes because we couldn't notice the difference on 2 different tellys and bluray players despite playing with settings for almost day and night for almost the full 3 days, needless to say that nordost cable went back on ebay for a loss.

 

[Miker]

I'm pleased to read that others are satisfied with Flatline Gold. I chose it without a trial on recommendation by my dealer because I was looking for a cable that would go under the carpet and stand up to being walked upon. I mainly listen to modern jazz and vocals, and am very saitfied with the sound from my HiFi set up. Small combos come across very clearly and crisply, even hearing the faint slapping of the pads on the saxophones.

CD8SE/Psxr ] - Prevs2/Psxr - 2*XPower - Spendor S5e
LP12 - Rega Fono ]

Cyrus interconnects and Nordost Super Flat Bi-wire speaker cable

 

[Anonymous]

I have used both Nordost Flatline gold and Atlas biwire, and they are both great cables.

The flatline biwire version was originally fitted to my hifi #2 years ago, I had 2x7m runs fitted to the biwire EPOS ES14s and it cost me £250 at the time (mid 90s). The sound improvement over what I had before was very noticable, even the Mrs could hear the difference. Greater dynamic range, more detailed...heard things in the mix that I just hadn't noticed before. I then transferred this cable to my ES30s for some years, by cutting each length in half and using one length shotgunned to the woofer. Then replaced this with twin runs of Townshend ISOLDA (£800).

The ES14s now have 2m lengths of Atlas Biwire, again nice detail and punch, perhaps better bass extension that the flatline. However the speakers are well into the corner of the room so its hard to tell.

I recently tried flatline back on the ES30s so do an A-B comparison with the ISOLDA...there was a difference but it wasn't night and day.

If anyone is interested, I have 4x 3.5m lengths of flatline biwire unused, I think its all terminated (one pair biwire, other pair shotgun) with 4mm plugs all round.