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Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality?

A dealer of mine convinced me into buying Analysis Plus speakers cables that I have enjoyed for a few years now. I noticed some other companies making speaker cables for many multiples of $1k and wondered how many truly good companies are making budget speaker cables nowadays? Who are they? What are the prices?  I had Blue Jean speaker cables some years back and thought they were as good as the Analysis Plus brand I have now. What is your brand? 
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jaymark
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Tunis' silver plated copper cables.  They sell here on Audiogon, are very reasonable pricewise and sound superb.
ps
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My most recent experiments with speaker cables have been with Virtue Audio Nirvana's. Right out of the box  they sounded better than the Blue Jeans Belden I was using- and over the course of about 100 hours the Nirvana cable steadily improved.  Jason Terpstra is the fellow who assembles the cables, which include IC's and more. His cables are easy to handle and look quite nice.

Great customer service and return policy.
ptss
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MIT has expertise at the extreme high end that allows them to make very high value introductory models. 
willemj
1,036 posts
 
Ordinary basic cable is good enough. The rest is a rip off.
dill
2,543 posts
 
willemj said:
" Ordinary basic cable is good enough. The rest is a rip off."
It is not "good enough" for everybody.
How many cables have you listened to?
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