The Best kept Secret in Speaker Cables please?

Yes, people here set themselves up asking questions without knowing what they want or in which direction their systems are headed...

Regarding speaker cables, I had the opportunity to audition ( in my own system ) Lak's Midnight Silver Edition by Ridge Street Audio Designs. They are truly phenomenal speaker cables and ICs, I would say.

It is intersting how a person asking about the "best kept secret in Speaker Cables" himself is asking for recommendations under $5k and yet are comparable or better than Valhalas and Transparent shouldn't solicit the type of information that he is looking for other than a person with verybigamp making a fallous straw-man argument out of it.

Dschltz
Thank you for your comments,
I have the Krell FPB-300 , and MTS Prelude with RABOS Subs
Infinity

XLO UNLIMITED clearly beat SPM REFERENCE Nordost in my system never heard Valhalla though the unlimited may better it also. See my reviews regarding XLO for more details.

Proy: Here is my system,

-Martin Logan ReQuests.
-Krell FPB 600.
-Krell KRC/Reference Phono.
-Sony SCD-1.
-Old VPI table, SME3009 arm, and various cartridges.
-All interconnects, Pure Note Epsilon Reference.

I also play with many cables. I still favor the Compass Lake for interconnects but only have this cable between my SCD-1 and preamp. I have tried Bogdan, Empirical, Ridge Street, and others but did not keep them. Perhaps you can borrow cables like I did to save hassle and expense.