I know I'm chiming in on this thread pretty late, but I was hoping someone could help me out before I go to the trouble of demoing cables in the home. I have Wilson Sophia 2's with Classe Cam400 monoblocks, Classe CDP202 Player, Meridian G02 Preamp, and an LP12. The whole system is with Transparent Ultra Balanced IC's and Ultra Speaker Cable with Reference Power Chords. I've had transparent for awhile and am considering a switch but I haven't been convinced to do so yet. I was thinking of doing valhalla Ic's and speaker cable but am a bit leary of it being "edgy" and bright on my system. any comments are welcomed