Woogie59, After painful extensive testing many various tweak's, The best match for the zero gold interconnect's sound stage is useing a furutech gtx-rhodium or furutech ncf gtx-rhodium outlet's, however, just use one on whatever you are connecting the zero gold interconnect to, in my case, it was my digital player, the zero gold interconnect has a wonderful sound stage, but it is a bit recessed in front, the furutech gtx-rhodium outlet's take 500 hrs of burn in, this gives you the proper front while retaining the depth of the sound staging, modifies all the attributes of the cable, incredible mid-range and bass with dynamic sound scale that is rather startling, also running dedicated power cables in your wall is a help as well, especially on your amplifier, I would never use an amplifier on anything other than straight to the wall, what you get for around $250.00 u.s.d. with the furutech gtx-rhodium outlet's is like a component change, yes, it's that much of an improvement, cheers