Right spending £2600 (if new) on cables to put into a system that has cost about the same as the cable, is in my opinion is over kill. So why? Well I brought them second hand for about a quarter of the price they would be second hand on AudiogoN. I am probably going to sell them on, but who knows. Any way they are half meter lengths cut from a larger length and then re-terminated by a Nordost dealer with Nordost RCA connects
If you look at my signature you can see what equipment I am using them with
The cables are thick and heavy and very stiff my amps front now projects in to the air (small compromise)
I have listened to lot of music through them now and can give some of my impressions. I was using John Dory Twin spiral silver interconnects before this. This is a very good cable neutral with a lot of detail link . I have used Nordost Red Dawn and Van Den Hul First Ultimate before that and think the John Dory a better cable. You get a lot for your money and now after listing to the Valhalla I can see they are indeed a good cable.
Through the Valhalla ever piece of music is brought out of hiding and put in the right place in the sound stage. Some times I could hear some thing going on in the back ground which seemed to be doing it own thing, now it has come out of hiding and is part of the whole and becomes musical. My wife is very familiar with Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerti for Lute, when she heard it with the Valhalla in she remarked that she never new their were pipes in one particle piece. You can now hear some one knocking a chair and the hum of people in the orchestra, there is incredible detail. They seem very quick with a very large sound stage and the involvement you get is staggering. People remark on Grado RS-1’s being too bright and compressed with a small sound stage this cable seems to sort this all out in a dramatic way. Voices and instruments seem so real and natural, every instrument has a three dimensional sound with it own space and is put in the right place in the sound stage. Things are still are very much part of the musical whole while still retaining great separation. On large orchestral pieces the complex sound does not get fazed, every thing just does its thing the way it should with great soul and emotion. It is like the sound been washed clean and presented with great clarity.
Now the £2600 question, are they worth £2600? (If new) In my system no way, but I bet if your individual components cost more then the cable you would be getting one fine cable. The price I paid second hand has made them a very good up grade for the money. They squeeze every thing out of my system. but I doubt my system is squeezing every thing from the cable. They can be compared to adding a very expensive piece of source equipment to the system I already have. I have just added power conditioning for about the same price I paid for the cable, and I would say the improvement’s the cable make are about the same if not better. I am going to hold on to them for a while as things have never sounded so good, really addictive listing.
Should I sell or shouldn’t it’s going to be a hard choice.
If you look at my signature you can see what equipment I am using them with
The cables are thick and heavy and very stiff my amps front now projects in to the air (small compromise)
I have listened to lot of music through them now and can give some of my impressions. I was using John Dory Twin spiral silver interconnects before this. This is a very good cable neutral with a lot of detail link . I have used Nordost Red Dawn and Van Den Hul First Ultimate before that and think the John Dory a better cable. You get a lot for your money and now after listing to the Valhalla I can see they are indeed a good cable.
Through the Valhalla ever piece of music is brought out of hiding and put in the right place in the sound stage. Some times I could hear some thing going on in the back ground which seemed to be doing it own thing, now it has come out of hiding and is part of the whole and becomes musical. My wife is very familiar with Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerti for Lute, when she heard it with the Valhalla in she remarked that she never new their were pipes in one particle piece. You can now hear some one knocking a chair and the hum of people in the orchestra, there is incredible detail. They seem very quick with a very large sound stage and the involvement you get is staggering. People remark on Grado RS-1’s being too bright and compressed with a small sound stage this cable seems to sort this all out in a dramatic way. Voices and instruments seem so real and natural, every instrument has a three dimensional sound with it own space and is put in the right place in the sound stage. Things are still are very much part of the musical whole while still retaining great separation. On large orchestral pieces the complex sound does not get fazed, every thing just does its thing the way it should with great soul and emotion. It is like the sound been washed clean and presented with great clarity.
Now the £2600 question, are they worth £2600? (If new) In my system no way, but I bet if your individual components cost more then the cable you would be getting one fine cable. The price I paid second hand has made them a very good up grade for the money. They squeeze every thing out of my system. but I doubt my system is squeezing every thing from the cable. They can be compared to adding a very expensive piece of source equipment to the system I already have. I have just added power conditioning for about the same price I paid for the cable, and I would say the improvement’s the cable make are about the same if not better. I am going to hold on to them for a while as things have never sounded so good, really addictive listing.
Should I sell or shouldn’t it’s going to be a hard choice.
If not, perhaps your heirs may find use for them.
