What most important in the sound of your cables?

@audiolabryinth. How are you. I'm glad that I have learned some much this year. I learned a lot about audio but more about people. I have met some really great people in audio this year. I got to meet the guys who make and develop equipment and how smart they are at fixing, modifying and diagnosing issues. I have listened to the top of the heap and budget audio this year. I heard dream systems and what makes them different. I heard some really great stuff and learned a lot. I'm truly thankful for the blessing that god has allowed me to experience this year. It's been a audio blast. I have listened to great stuff from high fidelity cables and be around people who really love this hobby. Some people it's not like that for. They want to put others down to feel better. I won't do that. I've been able to have long listening sessions with extremely high end dream equipment in the last 6 months alone. Wowwww!!! I been on a audio mission. I'm here listening to The jazz of Duke Pearson and Freddie Hubbard and I'm having a blast. @jmcgrogan thanks brother I love my Viennas. I'm going to hold on to them as long as I can they sound great. They make a great speaker.

that they allow the music to sound real, natural, 3D, and involving. Should be easy shouldn't it...

@yping. It should be easy but we all know it can be journey between cable equipment matching etc.

calvinj, I'm ok, things could be better, system sounds wonderful, it's going to take time for me to build my system into a super system, I still got to move on to the Tara Labs Evolution Zero and Evolution Omega cables, that will be exspensive, then there is all the tweek enhancements I am doing, you know the deal, it gos on and on, cheers.

Well, I'll chime in on this. I'm not sure I can really put my finger on what is most important in cables for me. I guess it would be a general sense of instruments and voices sounding and impressing me more like what I've heard live.

Over the years, I've used a variety of speaker cables, including Goertz Alpha Core MI-2, anti-cables, Morrow SP-2, and some others I don't remember any more.

Now, based on some posts here from an avid proponent of Audioquest cables as being "3-dimensional", I did just receive a new set of speaker cables(Audioquest CV-8). I replaced a set of Goertz MI-2 with the Audioquest last week.

Actually, I've been aware of Audioquest and their DBS system for decades now, but I guess I always dismissed such cable "aids" as gimmicks.

Well, consider me blown over, but the CV-8 cables produced an immediate and unmistakeable improvement over the MI-2. Before and after replacing the cables, I played a demo CD I got from Legacy Audio at the audio show in Austin, TX last spring. On one particular track, there is a guitar being strummed on the left channel, and with the CV-8 the sound of the guitar seems more "placed" in terms of depth from the listener, seems "prettier" sounding, and, most significantly to me, seems to "bloom" as it is strummed harder. I've never really known what audiophiles meant when they used the term "bloom", but I think I now understand a bit. Everything seems more in place and coherent with the CV-8.

Now, I don't know whether this subjective improvement in sound stems from the CV-8 being more "accurate" than the MI-2, or perhaps from some euphonic effect. Either way, I find the sound significantly better to my ears, and that is all that really matters to me.