[NagysAudio]

Hi,

     My name is Norbert Naguis, I'm an electronic engineer. I have just started a family owned and opperated business Nagys Audio. We design and manufacture absolute state of the art audio interconnect cables.

-We use the finest components available in the world, at any cost, from aerospace and defense industries.

-Together, we have more than 20 year experience in engineering.

-Our cables have the fastest transient response and dynamic range ever offered for audio.

-They are incredibly fast (frequency range up to 26.5GHz!) and feature absolutely no background noise, presenting the most realistic 3D soundstage.

Please visit my new website at www.nagysaudio.com Please inquire with any questions you might have.

Sincerely Yours,
Norbert Naguis
President of Nagys Audio

[earlmarc]

Ouch! A bit pricey. Do you offer trials. Selling IC's at $2000.00 per 1m pair is expensive and a hard sell without a trial and a money-back guarantee. Way too many cables to choose from and way too many hyped claims to know what's worth the asking price.

[earlmarc]

Norbert, you state you use a high purity copper inner conducter plated with silver. What specifically is different about your conductor opposed to other high purity copper conductors? Other than the frequency range of 28GHZ, I don't find that your specifications differ that much from other cables. I quess I'm trying to figure out what justifies the price. I have no doubt that you have compared your cables to other cables at and above your price point. Did your cables prove to be that much better than the cables you compared them too? And if you don't mind, could you provide what cables you compared them to? I am not trying to spoil your introduction to audiocircle. I welcome you and I hope you can provide us members with some insight into the confusing world of cable design and why you feel your cables are the best.

[arthurs]

.....and your website is down.....

[earlmarc]

Arthurs hit the second link. I don't why the second link works and the first link doesn't.

[Double Ugly]

I don't why the second link works and the first link doesn't.

I believe the period at the end of the first link is the culprit.

[Bemopti123]

There is some serious comparative listening to be done between hi end cables in order to assess where the new cable line stands.  If what is said is true then it must be one gloriously sounding cable...but being direct with a $2000 price tag is a big leap of faith.

[NagysAudio]

I've got a lot of hits on my website since I posted this ad, which I'm glad. I want to thank you earlmarc for welcoming me to the Audio Circle, it's wonderful to see many people with the same interests and love for music.

I have fixed the first link, the period at the end was the culprit.

I am working with audio dealers at the moment and will post a dealer link on here as well as on my website in due time.

The center conductor in the cable is oxygen free copper, but more importantly it is completely free of imperfections. Remember, this cable was designed to pass frequencies up to 28GHz. Once the frequency range is over 3GHz it is extremely critical that the conductor is:

- Silver plated and laser polished to a perfect mirror surface.
- Must be ABSOLUTELY uniform in impedence throughout the length. Any      micro variations and the signal will start to reflect.
- Shielding ability and the geometry + integrity of the braid/foil/braid is critical. These cables were designed to be used in precision testing in the micro volt signal range.

This cable is manufactured in a state of the art facility in United States, they manufacture cables for aerospace and defense industries, using multi million dollar equipment. No consumer company has the resources nor capability to manufacture anything close to it. NASA and Lockheed Martin use this cable for the most critical applications.

I have worked in the high end audio industry for 6 years, I have listened to hundreds of different cables, the most expensive cable I heard was over $30,000. I will not mention any companies by name for integrity purposes.

No matter how expensive or exotic the cables were, they all featured in one way or another an apparent grainy hash. Nagys Audio cables take that veil away.

The most important part in an audio cable is the cable itself!

[NagysAudio]

Hi Ethan Winer,

Thanks for the post, it's an excellent question. To reproduce 20,000Hz with zero phase and time distortion, the implied frequency is around 2MGz. To reproduce 100,000Hz (SACD, DVD Audio) the implied frequency is somewhere around 10GHz! However this is all with just passing one tone. Music is a mixture of many different frequencies, the harmonics can reach into the GHz range even for normal audio CD's.

If the cable is not capable of passing such high requencies, they begin to reflect. This reflection causes a cascading effect down the frequency range, ruining the correct phase and time in the audible range of 20Hz-20,000Hz.

What differentiates live music and recorded music is the transient response and dynamic range. The human ear is very sensitive, that is why it's so easy to tell a recording from the live performance.

To reproduce transients and dynamics in music with lifelike quality, the signal must have zero time and phase distortion.

Nagys Audio cables will shock listeners in how lifelike the music will sound.

Norbert

[John Casler]

I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't know where Nagy's response came from, until I saw this in another Circle which is soon to go to the Intergalactic Waste Bin.

So my Public Service for today  is to put the two together here, to make more sense.

Norbert,

> They are incredibly fast (frequency range up to 26.5GHz!) <

I can't hear much past 20 KHz, and nobody else I know can either. So why does an audio cable need to work at 26.5 GHz?

--Ethan

Hi Ethan Winer,

Thanks for the post, it's an excellent question. To reproduce 20,000Hz with zero phase and time distortion, the implied frequency is around 2MGz. To reproduce 100,000Hz (SACD, DVD Audio) the implied frequency is somewhere around 10GHz! However this is all with just passing one tone. Music is a mixture of many different frequencies, the harmonics can reach into the GHz range even for normal audio CD's.

If the cable is not capable of passing such high requencies, they begin to reflect. This reflection causes a cascading effect down the frequency range, ruining the correct phase and time in the audible range of 20Hz-20,000Hz.

What differentiates live music and recorded music is the transient response and dynamic range. The human ear is very sensitive, that is why it's so easy to tell a recording from the live performance.

To reproduce transients and dynamics in music with lifelike quality, the signal must have zero time and phase distortion.

Nagys Audio cables will shock listeners in how lifelike the music will sound.
...

[JAMn Joe]

I guess I am one of the first AC members to hear this cable so I though I would share some very preliminary thoughts about hearing his cables tonight.

Norbert lives in the same area so he came by tonight to let me have a listen. The cable pair listened to has less than 50 hours on it so this is very preliminary information. Norbert is going to make me a pair that I can have here for awhile to get a better feeling for them.

I'm not going to comment on the price, we all know that $2000 dollars for a pair of interconnects is expensive, but consider the price of the Stealth Indra's. Only you can measure their worth and value in your system. I like them enough that I'm looking into them further.

We only spent a couple of hours listening and comparing and then spent the next hour talking about where he wants to take his company.
The interconnects I was using to compare them against are the Revelation Audio Labs interconnects. A solid silver cable which works very well in my showroom, especially since the entire system is wired with these cables with the exception that I was running an Acoustic Zen speaker cable tonight which is copper. There still seems to be a very good synergy in the system with the silver interconnects.

The equipment being used consisted of a Herron VTSP-2 tubed preamp, an H-Cat preamp and the Red Dragon Audio Leviathan amplifiers. Our source was the April Music Stello CD Transport and Dac.
We played several tracks from several CD's on the existing system to set a baseline performance. When that was done we swapped out the source interconnect and replaced it with Norberts interconnect. The soundstage was not quite as big but there was an added weight and impact to the music immediately. The highs seem somewhat more extended and there is an additional sheen on cymbals. I haven't been able to determine the bottom end yet although it was solid my ears told me that the timber or tone of the drum skins was ever so slightly different, maybe slightly out of tune now but until I get the cables and can play with them for a while after break-in I can't be sure. The results where also the same when we went from the Heron (tube preamp) to the H-Cat (solid state preamp) in case anyone is wondering.

I can say that I liked what I heard enough to want to continue further evaluating them. These are very close to what you would expect from the Goldman Electronics camp with their better level of cables. This is also what I would expect from Norbert as that is the product line that he favors for equipment and has been successful in selling for many years. If that was part of his design goal then I would say he's on track for that aspect of his cables although, from what I remember of auditoning several of the Goldman cables is that his are a little more musical.

These interconnect cables are a lot of money for a new guy just starting out but I believe they are at least worth taking a listen too if you have a system that is in the same ranking that these cables want to play in. This is his statement product, based on solid engineering and the very best cable he knows how to build, at least for the moment. Time never stands still and I'm sure Norbert won't quit here if he's successful launching his first product. He's an all around good guy who's pationate about perfection and building what he believes is the best cable he's heard.

When I get a set here that I can spend more time with than a few hours I'll post any additional thoughts and findings. And please note, even though I am an audio dealer I do not represent Norberts cables. This was just an opportunity for both of us to do some comparison evaluations.