What would you pay for cables?

So.....At what £ per metre point do yall consider a manufacturer to be a slurping pee taker ?

I don't know but I wouldn't personally pay more than £50 for a half-metre interconnect with decent connectors and maybe £100 tops for a pair of 3 metre speaker cables with decent plugs. That's new price. And I don't see the point of buying any of that new since there's so many interconnects and speaker cables for sale on the used market.

I've paid more than that in the past, and bought them brand new as well, but like to think I learn by my mistakes. Shelled out £300 on some Chord Odyssey 2, bi wire, with Chord gold plated banana plugs all round. No difference whatsoever to the cable it replaced, Cable Talk 3 bi-wire that came bundled with the amp. Might as well have just set fire to the money outside of the local Superfi branch, gone home and gone straight to bed. 

Although much later, having tried them with various other amp/speaker combinations, they sometimes sound a little different at a 'Not at all sure I could pick them out blind' level.

NVA LS5, on the other hand, that does seem to have some sort of 'signature'. Always more apparent when you swap it in then when you swap back, when you think 'was it actually different?'

The problem for me is that I know more than anyone else.

[Vic Reeves: 'Only joking ... or am I?']

It really annoys me when reading passive aggressive sales pitch that as soon as you get to hear there wares you will know the truth and realise how stupid you are for not buying there equipment years ago, not so simple an equation.

NVA LS6 is £80 per metre I think.
That was the most I ever spent on a speaker cable. And very good it was too. (And as I upgraded from LS5 so only paid the difference.)
A second hand 2m pair of Colin’s Ultra Black at £300 replaced those. The UBs seem to be going for £250 per metre these days so that would be a grand for what I have. I don’t think I could afford that. So that hypothetical decision would be based on thr size of my wallet rather than on my subjective assessment of their value. They are great speaker cables. Best i’ve had. Unless I can find an improvement for < the amount I’d get for the UBs, I won’t buy a replacement.
...So to answer the OP question: I’d spend not more than the price of a second hand 2m pair of UBs.

I can’t take responsibility for that decision! :-D
I’m wondering which level of Colin’s cable his DIY suggestion to you is, and which NVA cable you might be comparing it to.
I don’t recall with sufficient clarity the differences I heard between LS6 and UB. I may have written something about it at the time on chews. I’ll take a look.

I know lots of people (as well me) who like both NVA stuff and Wonfor stuff. So there may well be something similar about them. Neutral, dynamic and musical.
The NVA range tends to sit at a lower price bracket.
But personally I found that Colin’s Class A power amps and higher range speaker cables (namely the Ultra Blacks) progressed my system when i’d hit what was then the top end of the NVA range. (Tho that was before NVA LS7 and TIS cables. I haven’t heard Colin’s new EWA cables.)

I think your plan is a good one.
Looking at EWA LS25 it looks comparable in price to UB.
And I would not describe UB as “grating”. So I’d be hopeful you’d avoid that. I find them wonderfully and naturally smooth. As I do much of Colin’s stuff.
But, if you can do try out some of Colin’s better cable before you commit to the build, that would obviously be informative. (You don’t live near Gloucester do you...?)

I will need a 6 metre length and a 4 metre one. I costed Colon’s desingn out at £150. So it’s not a huge amount at £15 per metre, when you consider Naim A5 would be twice that!

Not that easy to find a diffinative price for NVA TIS speaker cable, however extrapolated from a couple of old pos it would appear to cost there or there abouts an eye watering, wallet emptying £800 for a meter pair, is this correct anyone ? apologies in advance if inaccurate. 

I’m not sure but it isn’t called TSCS (the speaker cable statement).TIS is the interconnect. These high end ones are too rich for me. I don’t see the value tbh, but wouldn’t stop anyone else, I would advise buying used though so you don’t lose a packet if you decide to change later,

I quite agree Weste, I am unsure just what material, manufacture time, justifies £800 a meter pair

I'd certainly be interested in hearing them. I've never heard EWA cables, but have heard TQ.

You have a plan. :-)

I agree about Colin. He is very generous in many ways. When combined with his evil plan to addict everyone to DIY audio, it makes him very dangerous.

...And 2500 miles away from Gloucester...?! I know it’s not the most salubrius place, but is that distance really necessary...?

I’m more the former. But i’d prefer to feel i’m getting an honest price too. The two aren’t absolute alternatives I suppose.