My dealer came to my house and had me listen to 4 tracks (my picks) with my Kimber KS1121 interconnects (balanced) and Shunyata venom speaker wire. then replaced all with Transparent wire. Listening to the same 4 tracks, I noticed enough improvement in SQ that I bought the set. Since then I have been surprised at the overall imporvemnt in SQ with other familiar recordings. I have a pretty revealing system (ARC, Wilson, Linn, Moon). Not trying to start "Cable wars" just sharing my experience.