Questions from a newcommer

[NickW]

Hi there,

I own Devialet 1000 Expert Pros and Sonus Faber Amati Futura speakers and I absolutely love the combination. I've heard the 1000s with the Traditions and the combination is equally great if you love the Traditions. Personally, I find the Traditions have moved too far away from previous generations of Sonus Faber house sound. I've also heard the 1000s with the new Il Cremonese Ex3ME at Oxford Audio Consultants while listening to new speaker cables. Besides what remarkable speakers the Il Cremonese Ex3ME are (I wish I had a living room large enough to accomodate them!), I was staggered by how much more the Devialet 1000 amps had to offer! 
Nick W

I just upgraded to D1000 and also play with the Futura's. As I'll look into cables not that long from now: would you be so kind to share which cables have you tried so far and which are you using now?

Hi IGuardianI

I previously owned Yter speaker cables (two runs of 4.5m each) that I puchased when I started my high-end audiophile journey back in 2007 with SF Guarneri Momento standmount speakers. Having arrived at the SF Amati Futuras and the Devialet 1000s, the next obvious upgrade was the Yter speaker cable. I listened to cables from Chord, including the Sarum-T and the more expensive ChordMusic, and the Ansur A2 cables that Oxford Audio recommended to be compared with the Sarum-T. To cut a long story short, I found the ChordMusic to be my preference (by a good margin). Next I would have chosen the Ansur A2 cables over the Sarum-T, but it was very close.
The only problem was the huge cost to replace two runs of 4.5m Yter cables with two runs of 4.5m ChordMusic cables. Prohibatively expensive! In the end I purchased two runs of just 1.5m ChordMusic cable, moved my left-hand channel Devialet over to my left-hand Amati, purchased a smaller version of my main HIFi Racks stand for the left-hand side, and a long (3m) Chord digital interconnect to run between my master and companion Devialet amps. I still enjoyed plenty of change from what two runs of 4.5m ChordMusics would have cost.
Hope this helps.
NickW