Prana Deva vs. Nordost Valhalla

I own the Prana Deva interconnect with the upgraded, Bocchino XLR connectors and Prana Deva 2 Meter speaker cable and have been extremely happy with the very musical sound; the dynamics and the detail this cable allows through. It is very easy to listen to and very deceiving at first because it won't jump out at you. However, as you listen you are drawn into the sound stage and hear nuances you may not have heard before. I sold my over priced Transparent Reference XL speaker cables and a Reference XLR one meter interconnect because I preferred the very natural, musical presentation of the Deva. And I was a very satisfied Transparent owner for over 10 years and had never listened to a cable that came close to Transparent. The Prana is great. I can only imagine what the Cosmos would sound like. By the way, at the time of the change I had an all Krell system and VAC tube system and they sounded fantastic with both. Good luck with them.

I have the Prana Wire Cosmos in my system now and have used Valhalla in the past. Ordinarily I would not compare a $1250.00 (Prana Deva) cable to a $4000.00 (Valhalla) cable, but the Prana cable line are not ordinary cables. When I called Joe at Prana to auditioned the Cosmos line he did not have any of the Cosmos cables built to send out for audition, so he sent a pair of Nataraja series. While the Valhalla does everything well, the Prana Wire Nataraja just did it better, more naturally. The Cosmos took this to a even higher level. Each Prana Wire cable is built by hand from the ground up by Joe himself. The process takes time but the result is worth the wait

Brad

Hello Kmiller,

I would just like to say that if you can to try the Valhalla in your system. If you need a dealer to get a in home audition I can put you in touch with one.

All the best to you,
Tom

kmiller,
i tried several of the promenent cable makers out there, and have used the siltechs g6 top- of -the-line for about 3 years ,before i switched most of my cables to the prana cosmos speaker cables and i/c, and smahdis power cords.( i also use stealth's indra between source and preamp, and 3 of the stealth dream digital power cords on my dcs).
while there are several great attributes to the valhalas , it wans't my cup of tea... too dry and uninvolving to my ears.
the pranas ,on the other hand, were full bodied ,very musical ,and allowed great amount of detais to emerge.

hope this helps.
ozy.