In a separate facility nearer to Aarhus, I was given the chance to hear the first fruits of Michael Borresen and Lars Christensen's newest company, Ansuz Acoustics. The word Ansuz is the name of another rune from Norse mythology: the rune of Odin, who brought wisdom to mankind.

Developed by Lars and Michael (both of whom spent years working for Nordost), the Ansuz products are high-end accessories--speaker cables, interconnects, power cords, power conditioners and distributors, decouplers, and equipment stands--that, in the profundity of their combined effect, seemingly exceed every other product of their kind I've heard in one key area: soundstaging.

Thanks to Ansuz's Managing Director, Frits Dalmose (pictured above), I got to hear the effects of each and every product in Ansuz's four-tiered line.