Nordost vs. Transparent...which is better?

If a cable is good,you can use it through the whole system without problems.
So this means that Nordost is not neutral.
I vote for use of the same brand through your system,this way you'll get the most out of your system.
But some may disagree.

I have Transparent Audio Reference digital RCA cable and Acoustic Revive DSIX digital active RCA cable costing far less then TA, so that I could do direct comparison.
I am going to keep Acoustic Revive which clearly outperform
TA.

I too have auditioned both aginst my reference KCAG. The Transparent won and now all my IC's are Transparent Super Balanced. I recently tried a Transparent Ultra vs Kimber Bi-Focal XL vs Synergistic Resolution Ref speaker cable and the Synergistic edged out the rest by a hair. Go figure.

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

Valhallas are not "edgy or bright"; they are simply faster and more accurate than most other cables on the market. What is edgy and bright are the components, not the cable. I would not, however, wire an entire system with Valhallas, or any other cable model for that matter.

Hope this helps.

Neal