Nordost Blue Heaven to SPM Reference

Ksales
Thanks for your response. If you heard a difference between the Red Dawn and the Blue Heaven then it should further reinforce my belief that the SPM is just greater. Some people have pointed out that the step-up from the BH to RD is not too significant but from the BH to the SPM the difference is huge.

Well have to keep saving up for those purple candy-coloured wires and they are certainly not cheap!

I'm not selling the Grand Pianos as they are great speakers both sonically and aesthetically. I have sold my Classe CAP-100 integrated earlier as it doesn't have the power to make the Grand Pianos sing. I am now using ARC D130 to drive the speakers which proved to me a marked improvement over the Classe. I will be getting the powerful Bryston 4B-ST in a couple of weeks time JUST for the GP's. So you can see I am still changing my *components* to get the detail and speed that I wanted.

I am well aware that cables can do "just much" and it largely depends on the equipment/componenents in a particular system. I am just like everyone else trying to extract the best out of my system using the best cable(for the money).

I know there will be substantial difference from the BH to SPM jump but just trying to justify that the SPM Reference won't be too much of an overkill for my relatively modest Grand Pianos-Bryston 4B ST combination.

S23chang,
Geez this is getting far more complicated than I thought. I've actually posted a thread in the amp section on getting the 4B ST. There's no doubt on the capabilites of the D130 but I am guessing that the Bryston will suit my system better than the ARC D130 with the extra power on tap since the Grand Pianos are laidback in nature. I don't have the budget for the 7B or 14BST.

On cables, I don't know why I still prefer Nordost and nothing else. Anyway will give the NBS a thought though.