Cables, that’s where the money is 
Cables, that’s where the magic is
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Breaking the laws of physics and common sense is an expensive endeavor 
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What a crock of total sh1tte
Performance, stratosphere and dizzying. FFS, marketing tripe at its best.
Obviously YMMV, and you may hear a subtle difference with high end cables. Cables over £/$100 make my eyes water 
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It must be very difficult to plug in after it was pushed into the stratosphere. How many kilometers do I need?
I learned a new English word: Pellucid. Dictionary tells me it’s a synonym for transparent, so I guess this means that it’s a fancy way of saying “makes no difference”
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I wonder how much the oak or maple variants go for? And do they change the sound? Maybe oak is more analytical compared to the softwood entry models.
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Changing wood types changes the timbre of the music
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Ah the pain of the pune.
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Haha, great bantz.
I do like it when they diss the previous model! The old one was so aggressive in the trebles, yet no mention of a full refund for what appears to be an unfit for purpose cable!
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Well I don’t know what you expect from an interconnect for only 17K
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To be honest, I’d expect a sedan chair, free food and a firework display for cables at that price.
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You obviously haven’t read the latest news - the Odin 2 has been eclipsed …
Unsurprisingly, it’s more expensive than the Odin 2 
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Looking forward to the marketing copy. “Finally solving the lingering floppy bass of the Odin 2, …”
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The Odin 1 specs from Nordost Odin 1 Supreme Reference Interconnect (pair) – Upscale Audio (now only 7K, down from 17K, deal of a lifetime) contain this gem:
Velocity of Propagation: 90%
Wondering “90% of what”, the solution came in the blurb of the (I suppose very poor) Valhalla V2:
V2 is extremely fast, at over 87% the speed of light
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Don’t you mean timber? 
This is where the Odin Gold is clearly superior as “the sweeping, state-of-the-art, proprietary technology and high-quality materials used to construct the Odin Gold S/PDIF and AES/EBU digital cables make it possible to exceed all transmission standards” [emphasis added].
I’m guessing that’s something like 110% velocity, or maybe even higher 
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Nah, breaking light speed will happen with the Gold 2. (I found out in the meantime that this is what they are talking about, edited above)
Edit:
Ah, and I suppose what they used is a first order approximation of the speed of wave propagation in a cable, 𝑣=1/√𝐿𝐶 with the electrical values of Odin 1 in the specs,
Capacitance: 19 pF/ft
Inductance: 0.07 μH/ft
Which results in 0.87
I suppose that’s worth 17K
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