Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs

Nordost soundstage and imaging was top notch when demoed.

Sorry about my mistakes in writing.

Believe me with brands like Audioquest and Purist Audio the individual focus ( imaging) is superior because the instruments and voices are smaller in proportion. Beside this the black level is better. You get a higher physical and palpable image.

It is all about differences. I focus on those who are the best. They become the refference. When levels in black and imaging is less good for me it is inferior.

Then they don't bother to me any more.

I heard some very good thing about AudioQuest from someone the other day. I used to have the AudioQuest Truth interconnects (silver) as well as the AudioQuest Truth Digital Cable what twenty years ago. It's kinda difficult to believe the new stuff could be appreciably better than those cables, but I guess you never know.

I owned the Diamond+ pure silver loudspeaker cable from 1999-2000. After this I bought the Nordost Valhalla. And I kept it for 12 years of time.

I sold Audioquest from 1998-2004. After that it went of the radar. I had to wait for some Kimber slect cables and I lend some Audioquest interconnects in 2010. When the Kimber came I realized that Audioquest made a big step.

After this I sold the Kimber select cables in one week of time. And started to buy and sell Audioquest again.

These days it is by far the most important brand in cables for me. Because it gives me the best results. Only those really counts!!

Bo1972, I also sell popular products at my retail spot and can understand your points. It's the best bait for uneducated consumer!

By analogy, my consumers like to buy Madonna, Michael Jackson, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd and so on...
Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Nat King Cole, Julie London, jazz of any kind will most-likely stay on shelves substantially longer and those are for educated consumers that know about music more than just popular stuff.

It's all natural. Well marketted product such as Nordost, AudioQuest will sell good weather it makes or it doesn't make sense.

Taking the fact that wires can only dictate 1% of overall system performance, the dumb ballpark figure to invest into wires should be very close to that ratio. For system priced $10,000 the total price for wires should be somewhere close to $100. My system is a-bit bellow $10k worth, but wires total worth is $185 including speaker wires(BTW unterminated Kimber 8TC purchased as left-over bulk). My wire philosophy is tied mostly with pro-grade. Ones used in studios will bring the sound with most precision and with least investment giving the largest performance per dollar IMHO.