Originally Posted by DogBoy
You weigh 148 and your wheels are out of true in a week? That's just a bad build. Instead of new wheels pay someone to rebuild the wheels you've got. As to your question, I think as you move up from low level mavic to the high-falutin' bling, you get steadily lighter wheels, and materials move from AL, to better AL to carbon mix. They may get better hubs as well, but I'm not positive on that one.
+1
Up until a week ago i had a ridiculously cheap, no-name, single wall wheelset on my commuter. In the first month of riding i would break a spoke every other day and the wheels were never true. I'd just take them in to a shop for a spoke replacement and ride on until the next one broke.
Anyway, at some point i got tired of it, asked around, and demanded that the wheels be rebuilt by the LBS where i bought the bike. Since then, they ran for about 5000km without being trued once. And i'm talking day in, day out commuting on pothole-ridden roads, with my own 180lbs plus 10-20 lbs of load.
Then,a week ago i splurged on a pair of Mavic A319s/Deore 36 spokes, as part of a touring conversion plan of the bike. I actually contemplated keeping the old wheelset, because i couldn't bare the thought of throwing away a part that was perfectly reliable and in good shape. But then i got over it.
My vote - rebuild or re-tension the wheels.