Apologies for the somewhat late entry to this thread. I recently acquired some Valhalla and tried it in lieu of my AZ silver ref. Notwithstaanding the fact that I was already using an all AZ cable loom throughout which should favour their interconnect, the Valhalla walked straight over it by a considerable margin. The overiding attribute was one of increased energy, though quite frankly it does everything right. It was the sort of difference that resulted in my wife walking into the room and remarking how good things sounded; in itself a somewhat infrequent occurance. Before the AZ, I had used Nordost cables extensively over 5 or so years, working my way through their hierarchy before culminating with QF's. I moved to the AZ to get a more organic presentation, however the valhallas have shifted the goal posts over the QF, in a similar manner as the latter model did over it's predecessor, the SPM. Bullet plugs add a further improvement of a similar magnitude for a pleasingly minimal cost.
