Hi, my name is Rob and I am a musician. The Nordost and Taralabs are too lean for me. I bought Western Electric 16ga tinned copper speaker cables, very musical, bare wire to terminals. Since they cost only about a $1.49 a running foot when I bought them, now unavailable, I sold my Taralabs and Nirvana cables...I am very happy with the WE 16ga and pocketed about $20,000. Now the Taralabs does a couple of little things a smidgen better, but overall I enjoy the WE16ga much, much, much better. ;) Best, Rob of course YMMV.