Not the tonearm, just the Series 2 interconnects.
And the only thing I could ask XV-1 is: have you heard the generation 2 cables? I didn't hear the 'mechanical sound' of the Tyr until I got the second generation cables. I would never have described the Tyr as mechanical, except after I got the Frey 2, and then - in comparison - I could hear it.
And i wouldn't call the Frey 2 'warmer' or 'less revealing,' for the simple reason that it's unlikely Nordost would create something a step backwards, although manufacturers do do that (as in the WATT 2 being warmer than the WATT 1, but then the series 3 WATTS were much leaner - and obviously so).
The Frey 1 was much the same as most series 1 Nordost cables: lean in the upper bass/lower midrange. The Frey 2 is more coherent and has considerably more lower midrange, upper and mid bass (I don't play much pipe organ music or piano, so I don't listen for low bass, although even if I did I'd put in my Nola Thunderbolt first with the Contenders I have). There's no region where it sounds as though there is a suckout of any frequencies. The frequency evenness gives it more tonal color, but I hear tonal color in live music, and I don't classify that as 'warm.' It simply 'is'. And 'less revealing' it is not.
I think it is a given that the original Nordost cable was subtractive in its colorations, not additive, all the way up to the Valhalla 1, which I have as well. It's just that now, with the newer generation of Nordost cables, they have a more full 'palette.'
But my apologies if this is only about the tonearm cable, as perhaps that is not the newer generation of cables, but some form of the Series 1 cables. I wouldn't know about that at all.