Good morning to all of you
new year, new tests and listening sessions. I spent the holidays very quietly and took the opportunity to paint the walls of the music room after almost 6 years. I also tidied up the room and . . .
An opportunity to listen to a pair of Walhalla 2 speaker cables, rare to find in the second-hand market, prompted me to make a comparison, which later proved unequal, with my main cables, the Tyr 2, also from Nordost.
What can I say, the Walhalla in my audio system showed that in a well-set-up and familiar system, with the audio tracks I use for comparisons, quality and value are always recognizable.
The Tyr have always represented an excellent amp-to-speaker connection, with very good results, but the naturalness, coherence, and timbre of the Walhalla became evident over the course of a day; after giving them some time to settle and unlinking them for about an hour, they showed what they can do in an audio system. At times it felt like I had upgraded the speakers to a new level.
At times it seemed to me that I had upgraded the speakers to a level of transparency, naturalness, detail, and focus, eliminating some of the slight harshness and somewhat thin sound in the harmonics that the Tyr offered.
This trial also made me realize how much the Daedalus Ulysses can express in terms of quality and musical engagement by raising the benchmark upstream, and it's not just a matter of price, but of synergy.
The more expensive Kimber KS 3038 I tried before the holidays, despite being much pricier, did not give me the 'wow!' effect of the Walhalla, excellent cables to be sure, but probably not the right synergy in my system, despite the KS 1136 signal cables!
The remarkable result of the Walhalla is that it doesn't feel so much like listening to music, but rather being immersed in it, in a sound cloud of sound richness and timbral and detail accuracy that is incredibly realistic.
Enjoy the music !
