Taralabs cables

I primarily use 0.8 interconnects both HFX and ISM On-Board and they perform admirably.

I have used the The One and The Two and these were so much better.

I find the HFX more open and use these from my sources to my pre.  I prefer the ISM On-Board between my pre and power amp and between my pre and headphone amplifier. 

I hope to receive my first Zero Gold interconnect in a week or so(just bought it on Audiogon).

If happy with the Zero Gold I may have some 0.8's for sale.  

I will post my impressions over the 0.8 once it arrives.

Going back about 4 years or a bit more, I owned alot of The One interconnects and speaker cables and later moved to a combination of 0.8 HFX and 0.5 HFX (after healthy amounts of trials of 0.8 with ISM Onboard).

For speaker cables I found a shotgun run of The ONE to be my favorite over a single pair of 0.8 speakers cables (for The ONE a shotgun run is 2 complete pairs of course but for Tara, this is 4 individual cables to each speaker as Tara has (an approach that I liked very much) a practice of separating positive and negative sides of the run into individual cables.  Both my dealer and Matthew B. told me that for full-range speakers that open up considerably the lower the effective gauge and higher the amount of great copper that you give them, the shotgunning The ONE was superior to a single pair of the 0.8s. I stand by that statement and enjoyed the config very much. It was very musical and involving and while not the highest precision imaging I have heard to-date, it was a very good configuration for 2 different speaker generations that I owned.

For analog XLR ICs, I found 0.8 with HFX was superior to ISM Onboard; much more resolving and full range, better bass clarity, mids tonality and high frequency extension etc....

For digital (AES and other ICs), I found the 0.5 with HFX was superior to anything in the line I had owned or auditioned.  If memory serves, 0.5 became (or was used as the basis for) the Gold Onyx part of the line.

Models and position in the line today may require modification as my ownership experience goes back a few years but the main point is that I had very good experience with these cables and found the sweet spot for price, value and return on investment for speaker, analog XLR and digital interconnects at least relative to my system at the time.

Hi zephyr24069, I enjoyed reading your post,  informative,  I once used the One speaker cable's for bi-cableing myself,  in my opinion and experience,  I found running the Omega jumper 10" cable's to sound hugely better in every way than bi-cableing 8ft or 6ft speaker cable's,  at the time I bought the Omega jumper's-speaker cable's,  they were special order and was the flagship of the small cable's for this application,  they are made exactly like the Omega gold speaker cable's,  just smaller in diameter,  now, they are second in the line up,  the new flagship jumper cable is the new Evolution. 

Woogie59, Very nice speaker system indeed,  congrats are in order, what Audio Research component's are you using?