I am enjoying an NDX 2/XPS DR > NAC252/SuperCap DR > NAP 250 DR set-up.
My speakers are Graham Audio LS5/9 BBC Monitors.
Suddenly, I have the opportunity to buy:
(i) a Super Lumina 5pin DIN to 5pin DIN interconnect
(ii) a Super Lumina 4pin DIN to XLR interconnect
(iii) a Super Lumina Speaker Cable (5m pair)
(iv) a Super Lumina Speaker Cable (3m pair)
DIN to DIN first on the NDX2, followed by the speaker cable (get the length you will likely need long term). Then the DIN to XLR for the 250, but possibly hold on this if you are looking at moving up to a NAP300, as you would use the mono pair rather than the single stereo version for the 250 (though I use a pair of stereo ones on my 300).
Given the suggestions for alternatives to expensive cables, I’d max out the speakers long before considering that sort of money on wire, and only do that when everything else is at the best I see myself ever going
It can be a very cost-effective upgrade rather than a whole black box… generally if you start an upgrade chain you end up changing many parts of a system to ‘get the most of X’ it can get very costly eg NC200 to NC300 or to 500. Upgrading cables enables people to get the very best out of what they have already, and generally without upsetting the overall balance of a system. I decided to stay with 222/300/250 as I got the extra I wanted by moving to Vertere redline Ics and speaker cables at less than 1/5 the cost of changing the 222 to a 333/332.
I went Super Lumina and these were the benefits in order of sound quality.
1st - Super Lumina Speaker Cable
2nd - Super Lumina Din - Din
and
3rd - Super Lumina XLR
Some say the XLR only comes into it’s own when all the other cables are Super Lumina but I found they had very little impact in the sound quality and I would consider these as a low priority.
Had to go to Vertere for the speaker jumper cables as Super Lumina jumpers are so expensive.
That may be your view (which you are, in my view, fully entitled to hold) - and your choice. But its not mine.
The problem I have is when the cost of the ‘bits or wire’ starts to approach (or add up to) the costs of a different black box. So, a £200 lead (*) I could live with, but a £1000 (**) lead I could not.
Its an individual choice - and YMMV.
(* - I admit to owning a number of Naim Black SNAIC’s which are £199-00 at present, new.)