Ryder - that strategy makes no sense at least to me. While Valhalla is a very good cable, it certainly won't work well with every speaker, and therefore you run the risk of limiting yourself speaker selections because you invested a small fortune in wire????????? For example - suppose you heard a pair of Maggie 20's and fell in love with their presentation - Valhalla would definately not make the top 20 list of cables for these speakers, so what do you do - not buy them? Even more interesting, suppose you wanted to use Merlins, but the length of you hideously expensive speaker cable was just right your present speakers, but the binding posts on the Merlins require almost 24" of extra length due to the fact that they are 1/2 way up the back of the speaker. BTW - my speaker cables cost about 35% as much as my speakers and the level of performance I get from my setup with them makes it worth it to MEwith this system. I know the cables I currently use would not be ideal on some speakers, but if I wanted the new speakers, I would just have to figure on the cost of new cables into the "how bad do I want them" arguement. John
Speaker cables being pricier than main speakers
I was just wondering if there is anybody out there with their speaker cables being more expensive than the speakers itself. Although it may seem unwise or unjustified to have the cables pricier than the speakers as one could always upgrade to a more substantial or better pair of speakers, I always had this crazy idea of having the Nordost Valhallas permanently with my speakers, but then I could get a whole lot more upgrading the speakers rather than the cable.
My speaker cables cost about 1/4 the price of my speakers.
Just curious.
My speaker cables cost about 1/4 the price of my speakers.
Just curious.