The Vidar has little lights, four of them, that light up after each stage has been completed, from left to right. Three are lit up at the present time, as seen in the photos.. Each pass takes about a day to complete.
There are another set of LEDs for the speaker cable section. Here we see them without a flash and in full, albeit somewhat blurry, color.
I’m glad we spent a few days listening to the ODIN cables before we put them on the burner. Otherwise, I’d never have the patience to sit through these last eight days.
Interesting to see how much difference their is to the sound of the cables.
Every time I hear the systems without them, I think about how it would sound with them. Especially when we have people up here who really emphasize soundstaging.
We don’t, ourselves, and we have been moving things around and testing various amps / preamps, digital on the Coltrane Supremes and Kharmas, etc. And, of course, different equipment is going to want the speakers to be in different positions (optimally).
But we have been focusing on overall musicality and not precise soundstaging and imaging. This is where people have it a lot easier in their own homes, where they do not change out equipment every day or so. Then again, they never get to optimize the sound of their system like this either – just their soundstaging.
Anyway, Nordost Odin DOES soundstaging unlike anything else – and this would be a great way for us, as a dealer, to get darn good soundstaging without having to spend the time to reposition the speakers after every little change to a system. [And, truth to tell, this changing equipment around, seeing what different combos sound like gets old after awhile. Not just because equipment is HEAVY, but they all treat ground differently *hummmmmmm*, with different gains and different power cording requirements… its a lot of work].
One more day… what to do…. maybe we should put the Audio Note Kegons on in place of the Edge upstairs on the Supremes….? 🙂
