Speaker cable for Green Mountain Audio Callisto

Am I missing something? The Callisto, which I've owned, is a wonderful speaker, originally retailing for, what, $2200 and now retailing for $2900. Now there are 3 posters who recommend speaker wire (Virtual Dynamics) that retails for $2200 for a pair of 8' cables?! With all due respect, that's an insane recommendation.

Man, the Callsito owner would be much better served by moving on to a pair of, say, $4,500 speakers (GMA Pico Mideo?) and using the remaining $600 for a pair of "budget" cables. Or, as Drubin suggests, investing some of that $2200 cable budget in amp or source upgrade(s) and some on, say, a set of used GMA floorstanders, and still have a few hundred left over for "cheap" speaker cables.

For what it's worth, I used Paul Grzybek's (Bizzy Bee; Tube Audio Design) Fro-Zen cables with my Callistos and enjoyed them thoroughly. I got them when he first introduced them (a 15' pair for about $150) and much to my surprise I found that I thought they sounded marginally better than my 14-guage Home Depot utility cords. Marginally. Barely, but it still surprised me that there was ANY difference.

I still have the Fro-Zen's, although I'm thinking of trying out Blue Jeans Cable's bi-wire cables for my new, used GMA Continuum 1's.

Good luck, dude, and make sure you keep your cable spending in proportion to the thing you're cabling!

Petland, Sure it's bad to "ignore cables as a component" and have "no clue where the ceiling is with" one's current system. But I would argue that one can raise the ceiling of one's system far higher by taking the $1,500 it costs for an 8' pair of the cables you recommend and investing the bulk of that money into either a serious upgrade of their source or their speakers or, perhaps, even their amplification than can be realized by using $1,500 cables for $2,900 speakers.

That's not to say that cables make NO difference. I only suggested to the thread-intiator that his cable spending be proportional to his investment in his speakers. I do not think that 50% of speaker cost for cables is a good proportion.