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Nordost Sort Systems

SORT SYSTEMS – RESONANCE CONTROL

Resonance is an often overlooked, but defining factor in high quality sound reproduction. Nordost’s Sort System allows components to resonate at their natural frequency, without the burden of extraneous, damaging vibrations and the constraint of damping materials.


Both Nordost’s Sort Kones and Sort Füt units are mechanically tuned resonance control devices that act as mechanical diodes, creating a direct ground path that allows extraneous energy to escape from components, loudspeakers and audio racks. Without these disruptive vibrations, your system will sound more natural and lifelike, your music more lively and engaging, and you will be left exceedingly satisfied with the performance achieved by your sound system.


The Sort Lift is a unique and extremely effective cable support. While other cable lifters in the industry are only concerned with doing just that—lifting the cables, the Sort Lift not only elevates them off the ground, but it employs a patent pending, Floating Spring Design, minimizing the contact that cables have with the apparatus and maintaining the natural resonance of the cables themselves. Additionally, the Sort Lift inhibits the transfer of electrical charges from surface to cable, while delivering a noticeable sonic improvement on the performance of sound systems.


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REVIEWS

NORDOST SORT KONE – REVIEW

“The Nordost AC SORT KONES are far more than a tweak, and that to even consider them tweaks denies their stunning music-freeing abilities. We very highly recommend the Nordost SORT KONES as an amazing, stand-alone, portable rack system, that will allow one’s music to sing at a level above.”

— K. E. Heartsong, AudioKey Reviews

NORDOST SORT ISOLATION SYSTEM — A TRIO OF OPTIONS

"...greater sonic ease and less edginess, an improvement in subtle detail retrieval, and more coherent dynamics. Music just sounded more focused and less jumbled, as if small timing errors had been corrected...Sor Füt helped ratchet up my system's performance across the board without any apparent downsides.”

— Kirk Midtskog, The Absolute Sound

NORDOST SORT KONE BC RESONANCE CONTROL SYSTEM

"Ranging from the subtle in some areas to the easily distinguishable in others, the Sort Kone BCs nevertheless made an overall undeniable improvement to my system’s levels of transparency, harmonic decay, detail retrieval and soundstage presentation."

 

– Edgar Kramer, SoundStage! Australia

SORT KONES — A SCEPTICS BACKFLIP

"Track after track delivered more emotional renditions of familiar music, clearer harmonics in acoustic pieces, and an overall feeling of a system that had just found perfect phase. The width and depth of the soundstage had increased and the ever-telling foot-tapping had started."

– Marc Rushton, StereoNET

NORDOST SORT KONE, FÜT, AND LIFT SYSTEM COMPONENTS

"With all these Sort components in place, the system is really cookin’. So, it’s time to take them all away and see what happens. Then it’s almost immediately time to put them all back in, because taking them out was such a shock to the system: both yours and the electronics. What was cookin’ is now stale. The unSorted sound is like your system on a bad hair day. The soundstage seems to fold in on itself, the natural sense of harmonic overtones, and sense of musical structure to the sound has weakened. It’s just not all there!"

– Alan Sircom, Hi-Fi+

NORDOST SORT KONES REVIEW

"I can wholeheartedly recommend the Nordost Sort Kones as a major step forward in improving sound at a reasonable cost."

– Fred Crowder, Dagogo

THE IMPORTANCE OF VIBRATION CONTROL

Vibration makes sound possible. However, it can also be one of the most damaging factors to a sound system. How can something so fundamental to music also have such a negative impact on performance? This guide will help you to identify different types of resonances, their sources, and how to manage those harmful vibrations, so that you can enjoy your sound system to its full potential.

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