Chungted, I have had the NWO2.5 for a couple of months now and I would agree 200% with your comment. Buy the best source first and then work back towards the speakers. Only then can you know for sure how up to snuff the rest of your gear really is. For example, my Dynaudio Temptation speakers are now at a completely different level of performance with the NWO2.5 as souce.
I would go one step further though and say get Alex's unshielded minimalistic silver core cables because they allow the full performance of the NWO2.5 to be communicated downstream through the amp and speakers. Once you have a source as magnificent as this you should want to extract every ounce of its performance and his cables do this. However, if your source (or amp or pre-amp) have deficiencies than his cables are probably not the right move as they will highlight the brightness, edginess, grain, etc. like a spotlight.
