I never heard of clarity cables, everyone is making cables in their basement. I am using siltech and like them very much. I would be squeamish buying cables that don't even tell you what their conductors are copper, silver, etc whether it is shielded or not. My friend now purchased clear day cable I think it should have been called clear as day.
Assuming you want to pair up with the amp listed on your system page, Verity Parsifal's. The Encore's would definitely come in at less than 10K. Of course, this is assuming you are looking at used.
The Alpha Dac is very smooth and sound more tube-like than my Ayon CD2 and EE Dac I had a few months back. Soundstaging and imaging are very precise with excellent ambiance retrival. The Outriggers are from Sound O City and they made difference in stability and locking in Avalons imaging capabilities.
The Alpha sounds nothing like the Rega, sold mine after little use.
System edited: System updated with Morrow Cables but will evaluate with Clarity Cables to determine which one works better in my system: more to come in the next few weeks.
Added the Berkeley to my system last night and it sound fantastic, more tube-like than my Ayon, which sounds bright in comparison. Also, I'm finding out the the Morrow cables are much better in my system than the JPS. I have the MA1's breaking in and have ordered some Morrow SP4, DIG4 and MA4's to try. These cables are very promising, very wide and deep soundstage that sounds so real
