The Vahalla's premium performance strengths are your bane: they undress and expose all the weaknesses and warts in the rest of your system.
There is a reason why they are both class leaders as well as the preferred reference cables in many of the mag reviewers' systems. You get what you pay for in this hobby.
IMO you are looking at at a Mexican standoff because you lack synergy. Hence you only have two options .... You either:
(A) step up in quality with the rest of your system ....an alchemy of the source, electronics, speakers and the rest of your cables; or
(B) step down in quality to lesser -ergo more foregiving - cables.
There is a reason why they are both class leaders as well as the preferred reference cables in many of the mag reviewers' systems. You get what you pay for in this hobby.
IMO you are looking at at a Mexican standoff because you lack synergy. Hence you only have two options .... You either:
(A) step up in quality with the rest of your system ....an alchemy of the source, electronics, speakers and the rest of your cables; or
(B) step down in quality to lesser -ergo more foregiving - cables.