I don't think the storm series are really priced much higher than the older line, if you look at metal quality/content. I mean if we speculate that the Dragon has at least as much (or very close to as much) PSS silver as an old WEL NRG, and adds the extra metal in as PSC+ copper, its pricing is basically in line (looking at their per-ft pricing formulas from the old PDF). Unfortunately they haven't published wire gauges on the new series, so of course this is speculation. But I can't imagine they'd put less total silver content in a 1m Dragon than a 1m WEL NRG. And look at the Hurricane -- it's priced pretty close to the NRG 1000 formula, if you factor in 2x the per-ft cost for double the PSC+ metal (again, speculating).
Now the question is whether they'll go even bigger than 9 AWG in the new speaker cables. But 9 AWG is already pretty ridiculous. By comparison, the old NRG series at 13 AWG was extremely undersized versus the competition.
The real problem for us working-class mortals is that killer used deals on the new cables lines will probably be extremely rare for a long while. I'm very happy with my collection, though. I'm especially fine with my double-Kilimanjaro biwire, 9 AWG PSS silver, on speakers.
Last edited by mulveling; 01-03-2018 at 07:01 PM.
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