Speaker cable for Green Mountain Audio Callisto

I love these discussions on cables and their importance. This hobby would be a lot cheaper if they weren't important. You can get good sound without paying attention to them, but most naysayers have no clue where the ceiling is with their current system if they ignore cables as a component. IMHO the Callisto is reference caliber and I found them unbelievably revelaing of cable changes at all levels, in fact more so than any speaker I have ever owned. I went through too many to list, some esoterica and some not nearly so glamorous. I did not try Roy's recommnedation of the Virtual Dynamics however.
The best in my system was Revelation Audio cryo treated silver cable. In fact I am at a point I never thought I would be where all my calbes and IC's are from Revelation. Brad's cables don't seem to follow the rules regarding silver (too much of a good thing). Everytime I dropped one in the noise floor sank and ultimate musicality improved. At the time I purchased them they were half of their current offering but I still think they are a reasonable value. They also have a 30 day trial. Make sure your source components are dialed in to your musical tastes and with top tier cables, the Callistos are capable of amazing performance. BTW I have no realtionship with Revelation, just sharing my experience.

I understand the points about distributing resources within a system and certainly agree that if other areas are lacking, money could likely be better spent but not necessarily so. Cables always fall to the bottom of most peoples list and then we blame the source, amplification etc if we are searching for "more".I would argue you can't really evaluate those variables until you tie them in some fashion with good cables. I think your dollar ratio system is flawed for one reason in this example and many others: The Callistos cover 90% of the audioband in world-class fashion which is 95% of most music. You would be hard pressed to out-class them with anything you could put in front of them regardless of pricetag. I could care less what their retail value is, I only care what their potential is. By this reasoning only 10K speakers (likely full range floorstanders with multiple drivers) would justify $1500 speaker cables.
Now that I think of it, I have bedroom system where the total cost of all the cable is close to the total of the amp/speaker/source.(used values) This was not intentional, just how it ended sounding the best. the amp is the Music Reference RM10 which can be had used for around $700. Speakers are Meadowlark Kestrel I HR, also cheap. I would not hesitate to pair it with a $1500 (if necessary) speaker cable that can show off the glorious midrange of a well designed dead quiet EL84 amp such as the RM10 paired with an uncanny speaker such as the Kestrel I. Link them with some mediocre cable based on some "formula" and you could easily miss the magic.
One last idea since we are kind of indirectly on it anyway. Average cables smear the signal with phase distortion in the same way average or overly complex crossover networks do in many expensive speakers. Speakers like the Callisto that do not do this really show cables that do.
regards, Paul

Shadorne, the only point I was really trying to make was that I think the Callistos are of a high enough caliber even though they are not full range to warrant the best, even if it meant the Callsitos ended up being the least expensive component in a given system. They are very tough to trip up.
And yes, I have no trouble at all imaginig systems that would benefit form downsizing their speaker and upgrading their cable, probalbly one of the more common mistakes around. It is far easier to tune up the right size speaker than to tune down a speaker that is overcompressing a room. P