Cable Upgrade: Too much transparency

Thanks very much. The cables were burned in before I bought them. Is there a better interconnect for this system? I had Monster Cable that was about 20 years old. The only thing I changed was the cable. I'm sure room treatments and better speaker positioning would improve the system but I'm constrained because it's in my office.

Hugo1, I had Diamondbacks (called Viper before) a while ago followed by King Cobra (called Python before) to end-up with Acoustic Zen Absolute. King Cobra has similar to Diamondback neutral sound but is more refined and doesn't cost much more. By refined I mean cleaner, smoother sounding. AZ Absolute is way better but for much more money. Your cables need time to settle but being open sounding might expose brightness of your speakers or amp. I had this problem with Diamondback (Viper) and metal dome tweeters in my previous speakers. New, warm (but very transparent) sounding, Hyperions HPS-938 are much better and don't sound bright or forward even on the worst CDs.

I don`t believe you can have such a thing as'too much transparency'. Forward,edgy or brightness can be mistaken for false transparency . True transparency IMO means the elimination of a 'veil' or blanket effect in your system.
You want as little obstruction between you and your music as possible.
Regards,

Not too transparent but maybe too revealing. Good cables can highlight problems else where in your system.

I used to have some diamondbacks and I actually had pretty much the same experience. Now a few cables down the line I have some Auditorium A23 ICs and without changing a single other component all is well.