I would lose the mit cables first. I tried some with my virgos and they shut down the upper range in a big way. I was trying the mit 750 spkr and the mit 330 i/c. For my virgo/pass labs system they were the worst cable's I've used.
To spice things up, you might try some cheap silver cables with that setup. I have not heard them, but the dhlabs are supposed to be very good cheap silver cables.
I had great results with nordost red dawn, spm, quattro-fil and the virgo's. Their ultra transparent nature really brought out the imaging magic of the virgo's. They also help to offset the resolution loss of tube gear. You can get into red dawn for 200 per i/c.
A cheaper setup would be to go with acoustic zen satori speaker cables and silver ref i/c's. Those lose some detail, but have a nice harmonic warmth to them.
A really cheap setup would be harmonic tech truthlinks and analysis plus oval 9's. Those will give you a very 'coppery' warm sound and will tend to shut things down a bit. In my system this combination did surpass mit by a healthy margin.
To spice things up, you might try some cheap silver cables with that setup. I have not heard them, but the dhlabs are supposed to be very good cheap silver cables.
I had great results with nordost red dawn, spm, quattro-fil and the virgo's. Their ultra transparent nature really brought out the imaging magic of the virgo's. They also help to offset the resolution loss of tube gear. You can get into red dawn for 200 per i/c.
A cheaper setup would be to go with acoustic zen satori speaker cables and silver ref i/c's. Those lose some detail, but have a nice harmonic warmth to them.
A really cheap setup would be harmonic tech truthlinks and analysis plus oval 9's. Those will give you a very 'coppery' warm sound and will tend to shut things down a bit. In my system this combination did surpass mit by a healthy margin.