I’ve also been using Dream Petite speaker cables since quite a number of years now and am still REALLY happy with them. Why should they ever degrade?? They don’t! Just clean their connectors once every ten years and your set! I think you suffer a bit from boredom and/ or curiosity for something else…understandable. It’s a bit like with women after such a longer period of time …LOL.
But oftentimes it doesn’t get better …and coming back to topic: changing speaker cables to a different brand may make it necessary to change other parts of your chain as well to get your required sound (back?). So big risk here! The V16 versions in my book are more or less cosmetics. Change ONLY when you’re not satisfied with the sound of your system AND your speaker cables are the weakest part in your chain (which I doubt cause they’re great when fully broken in).
But oftentimes it doesn’t get better …and coming back to topic: changing speaker cables to a different brand may make it necessary to change other parts of your chain as well to get your required sound (back?). So big risk here! The V16 versions in my book are more or less cosmetics. Change ONLY when you’re not satisfied with the sound of your system AND your speaker cables are the weakest part in your chain (which I doubt cause they’re great when fully broken in).