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

To try this will cost you next to nothing! Go to a store like Big R and buy say 40 feet of 12 ga solid core furnace wire , cut them to to 10 ft each,  (this is very stiff solid core wire) kinda ugly poor man james bond thing here, however  to date i have not heard a better pair of stranded wires out there that sounds as good, considering this test will only cost you 13.00 -15.00 ? why not try it, im running them on rogue stereo 100 amp/ rogue perseus magnum preamp (rolled to nos holland amperex bugel boys) and morrow ma-1 solid core interconnects  for playstation 1 ( cd duties ) and morrow ph-1 solid core 24 ga from a vpi scout 2 w/ AT art 9 mc  cart, im done trying to improve sound, im very pleased with this system and can finally relax and listen to the music for what it was intended , enjoyment ! not evaluating, always evaluating for the next big giant killer. just my 2 cents on speaker wire world of sports.

Never having spent big $$$ on cables, I would state that going from your usual twisted copper ala Monster etc. to belden 9497 hook up wire made an easily audible improvement. Tinned stranded copper in a twisted configuration similar to the Deuland wire mentioned on the first page.

I have tried all the usual suspects under about $1500.
Best buys are Clear Day for rock/pop and AudioArt for acoustic music .
AudioArt harmonics are good at any price .

I would love to try Clear day cables...I just wish they looked better. I do like some of the visual qualities of some cables. 

Audio Envy has been brought to my attention. Looks like some folks replaced their $$$$ cables with these.