[msing539]

If I owned an actual Odin cable, I'd disconnect it every night and take it to bed with me. Then we'd hit the gym in the morning and stop for power shakes on the way home.

 

[dougms3]

That looks interesting, but I'm not sure if I would get it - recent experience with audio cables points to the merits of being shielded thoroughly. The best headphone cable I can remember hearing was fully shielded on the outside, and every time I add ferrite clamps to my headphone and RCA cables, the sound really comes into focus and is more resolving, better dynamics, Etc. Or I may be mistaken and that cable actually does have a shielding? As far as I know, this helps for EMI / RF protection, and prevents electrical leakage of sorts.

The cable is heavily shielded. Just like all the other odin cables the conductors have a spiral wrap of aluminum or sterling silver around each conductor.

 

[cdacosta]

Also I'm curious - how much is the price of the original Gold Odin AC cable, and what does it look like? Someone here says it costs as much as a car, but not sure if they were exaggerating.

1.25M MSRP is $35K. Link to a dealer, all sell for the same price I understand:
https://www.hifipig.com/nordost-odin-gold-cable-range/

 

[cdacosta]

My Odin Gold AC cable should be coming in a few days. I'm planning to burn it in as the main power cord to my huge power conditioner (Furman IT ref 15i). I probably won't hear any difference regardless of which cable is used or burn in process in that spot, being that it is before a huge power regeneration cycle, but will probably swap it to my amp every now and then to listen for changes. Would you think this is a good enough way to burn it in? I suppose I would have to have the power conditioner on, at least powering low-level components such as a DDC or wal-wart... but I'm definitely not going to be burning it in with my tube amp 24/7 which has tubes that can get extremely hot. I also probably wouldn't want to burn it in with my computer, because that would just be connecting to a a wall-wart for a laptop.

The power cord attached to your Furman IT ref 15i should effect what you hear or the gear attached to this power conditioner. I suppose nothing in life is for certain but I am fairly sure this will be the case. I have built several balanced power conditioners and have two isolation power conditioners in my headphone setup now. The power cable used has always been audible to me. But obviously YMMV.

For burn-in of any cable, I do not recommend moving the cable around. Burn-in of the Odin Gold PC is 500+ hours. Obviously will work immediately, but how the cable performs is completely different from new to after burn-in. If you have a constant load on the Furman, leave the PC on the Furman. Best way to burn-in is on a cable cooker, then fridge or large draw device, lastly is on device that will constantly draw current through cable.

 

[szore]

1.25M MSRP is $35K. Link to a dealer, all sell for the same price I understand:
https://www.hifipig.com/nordost-odin-gold-cable-range/

sheesh even the .5M XLR is 35K...

 

[DecentLevi]

Can someone recommend which seller here to get an Odin 2 CRA coax cable? I found this one (from Getwire) but it says Odin Pure Silver, is that the same as Odin 2?

Also is there an Odin 2 AC cable on sale?
And 3.5mm to RCA cable?

I'm thinking to go all Odin 2 this time around since I like it fast and clear. My Odin Gold AC cable is on the way.

 

[DecentLevi]

PS - look at the insides of the Odin 2 AC cable, it's insane quality. If this isn't silver I wonder what it's made of.

 

[szore]

 

[msing539]

I "think" the ones marked pure silver are Odin 1 cables. They don't make it easy to figure out what's what.

I've purchased from this seller:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832234344491.html?mp=1

And Timeless Audio, and some others. My guess is they just drop ship from warehouses. I usually look for the cable manufacturer to be Audiocrast.

Doug, I think, found the 3.5 to dual RCA.

 

[dougms3]

PS - look at the insides of the Odin 2 AC cable, it's insane quality. If this isn't silver I wonder what it's made of.

To be honest, I think its most likely a silver alloy like sterling silver.

The price doesn't make sense if it were high purity silver.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256801405522978.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef1802MgeNlx

The coax cable is cheaper here, this is the version 1 though.

 

[dougms3]

I "think" the ones marked pure silver are Odin 1 cables. They don't make it easy to figure out what's what.

I've purchased from this seller:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832234344491.html?mp=1

And Timeless Audio, and some others. My guess is they just drop ship from warehouses. I usually look for the cable manufacturer to be Audiocrast.

Doug, I think, found the 3.5 to dual RCA.

That one looks a little different, it has wbt knockoff connectors.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256801342455842.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.16841802flpweh

Are you referring to this one?

 

[msing539]

These wooden blocks tho...

 

[dougms3]

These wooden blocks tho...

Lol when the hell did you get all those.

You guys are getting way ahead of me. Haha.

 

[szore]

These wooden blocks tho...

I know. The're so gawdy and useless, I love them tho.

 

[msing539]

Lol when the hell did you get all those.

You guys are getting way ahead of me. Haha.

It's only like 3 pairs... 3 pairs of cables with like 24 wooden blocks.