Anticables

Enough. Are you aware of the thousands of young people right here in America listening to 64K mp3's on Beats earbuds! Stop your $600 interconnect bickering and let's work to eradicate audio poverty :) 

Never forget that Radio Shack’s 18 gauge speaker wire gets an honorable mention in every Stereophile's annual Reccomended Components. You don’t get much for a few hundred unless there is some silver or custom terminations.

I will say that the Anticables Silver/gold speaker cables are superb.  I'm keeping mine and I've had some very nice cables - MIT Magnum MA, Audience Au24E and Synergistic Tungsten. And I will be trying out the Anticables ICs soon.  No scam here, I can affirm.  I feel it must be your preferences and perhaps your set up.  Paul does have a 30-day return policy.  If you bought them from him you should be able to return them.  If not, as someone else noted you might have been scammed by your seller.

MIT audience or synergistic may not be good enough for a comparison against anticable.  A belden speaker cable should be used as a benchmark.  If there's one company that knows about conductivity without a doubt it's belden.

I’m sure Belden and Alfa cables are made well but they don’t sound quite as good as some high end cables . Maybe if you cryod them they'd have a better chance.  Another inexpensive wire is mil spec US Navy wire, silver Teflon copper, available all over eBay in just about any gauge you want.