Are Nordost really the Rolls Royce of cables?

I often question comments like Natalie's ??

Generalistic statments never impress me. Cables that work or do not work are a question of Synergy in your system, having said that, the cost of Nordost are relative, not to price but to performance..

If you have your system optimized but missing that extra touch to put you over the edge due to cables, and Nordost give you that extra 10% hit (or 2%) in better performance, and you have hit Audio Nirvana that you have been longing for, then I say they are worth every penny.

And from what I hear, Nordost do this more often then not !!

thanks !
Matt
http://members.rogers.com/mzn50/

It's foolish to hype any one manufacturer's cables as the "Rolls Royce" of anything. I use Purist Dominus in my system, which is a very expensive cable, and love it, but that is as much or more a function of the way Dominus interacts with the specific components in my system as anything else. I got to Purist (from Cardas and then NBS) by listening to descriptions of the type of sound their cables tended to produce in a system and, given my taste and the way the system leans, going out to listen to them. Recently, an audition in my system of a single (obscenely expensive!) Kharma Enigma cable suggested I might like that even more. Who knows what else is out there? Nordost might be as good (never tried them in my system, although I did hear Valhallas in a so-so system at a dealer, where they sounded so-so, of course), but THE Rolls Royce? That takes in a whole lot of territory, and none of us has time and money enough to explore it all.

Valhallas are the best I've used.

As a Volkswagen dealer and a Nordost Valhalla owner I take exception to the analogy I would prefer to think of them more akin to the new Passat W8, reasonably priced given the technology , built with quality in mind not mass marketed,and all the speed and precision that you or your system can handle. Just as their are a few great automobiles out there, their are many fine cables and just as you "test drive" a car before you buy it do the same with cables then and only then can you make an educated decision . I have gone up the ladder with Nordost from the red dawn to the spm and now the valhalla and although I can never say I was displeased with a product each step up gave me an enhancement to what I had previously enjoyed. So just as their is not one car for all people cabling is also very personel and system dependent so grasp the hobby that we enjoy experiment to your hearts content and purchase the ones that suit you best . Ps. just one more car thing if you notice certain used cars hold their value so do good used cables if you use that as a barometer this will give you an idea of where to put your money.

F.Y.I. I just bought my wife a Passat !