Thanks to those who responded in the last two days.
To shadorne. Again, good points especially about upgrading speakers as long as you have good basic speaker wire.
I did not want to start a new thread regarding the following comments I have often heard from members:
"Don't try to tailor the sound quality of a speaker with either speaker cables and/or interconnects between key source components"
That might quality as "good common sense" advice, in some instances, but I can characterize the sound of several different brands of speaker cable I have owned since 1988. that made "notable" improvements in the sound quality, and they were not necessarily big bucks wires or ICs.
There were no night and day differences, except for "switching out" my long term " GO TO" interconnect, the Audiomagic Spellbinder II interconnect (used first between amp and pre-amp, and then consistently between pre-amp and a Rega Apollo CD player)... with the CHORD CAMELEON IC. Every CD sounded smoother with much less glare and digital artifacts.
I can also tell the improvements in coherency across the board using two previous generations back, Harmonic Technology Pro 11+ speaker cable. My other speaker cable I occasionally switch to is Grover Huffman Z series speaker cable ( I don't know its generation history) Unlike, the HT Pro 11+ the GH speaker cable is more dynamic, forward in the midrange, with deep bass, yet a touch of zingy but non-fatiguing highs.
I don't switch out these cables to "TAILOR THE SOUND" but because I like what each offers separately. However, I do prefer the overall balance of the HT Pro11+
Therefore, I don't subscribe to the "school of thought" claimed in the above paragraph # 4 We all search for the sound quality we want to hear by different paths..... Cheers. SJ
