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Be prepared for an interesting thread, spish.

It seems that the most obvious area of sonic improvement in anyone's system would be the speakers themselves. If you're willing to drop $1200 on cables, why not go for a better speaker to begin with?

Personally, I don't see how anyone would want to spend more on their cables than on the speakers themselves. But that's just me. But it's good to hear you're happy with the (much more reasonably priced) anti-cables.

And don't be surprised if you end up strongly preferring the Axioms over your Paradigms. My brother went from Monitor 9s to Axiom M22s, and the M22s just completely blew the Paradigms away in everything except bass response. I have a pair of M3s and am very happy with em - they're great speakers!



of course I'll let everyone know how I feel about the M3's!

to answer the 'better speaker' question; that was the plan but several reasons got in the way that all boiled down to money. don't knock the 7's! for $800 you'd be hard pressed to find much else that plays what I like to listen to as well as they do. i bought based on my musical taste, within the budget I had set, rather than what reproduced Maria Calas' voice most accurately. i wanted a well rounded speaker that had (gasp!) bass, good mid and defined highs.

after careful consideration I've decided on the M3's and hope they don't get returned.

as for the cables -- $1200 seemed like peanuts when I bought them and I don't regret it for a second. they were, and still are, great cables. had the Anti's been around when I bought the VD's I surely would have grabbed 'em.

cheers!

-s