Interconnects and Speaker Cable, What in your history hit your pleasure button?

meiatflask, I chortled at your comment, "he interconnects made a bigger difference in my system than the preamp did," not out of mockery, but because of understanding. I have had similar experiences between cables and components. It's tremendous fun for me to tune a rig with cables in order to achieve a sound that I relish. Kudos on following up the experience with commitment to the improvement.  :) 

i dont see even one mention of Cardas.
is there no love for these?
im thinking of giving them a try with my PS Audio gear & B&W 804d2 speakers.

I’ve tried and used many. I’ve settled down with Audience. I’m using The new Front Row USB, AU24-SX interconnect from Dac to amp and AU24-SX Speaker cables.
Magically Musical. Natural extension on top with no etch, midrange is just sublime, bass is extended and both powerful and quick. I’m also a long time Shunyata owner. Their power products have been and are consistently top of the range, they’re simply consistently better than others I’ve tried.

I have been predominately using DH Labs cabling for almost 20 years now. Silver coated copper cabling for what it is worth. It has just seemed right to my ears in most of the systems that I have had set up over the years-including my current one. I also tend to use the same cabling throughout, preferring not to mix and match. 

Other cables that have seen use off and on have been Mogami, Supra, Linn, Naim, the Linn and Naim more when I had systems from those companies wares. 

I have tried several other cable looms in my current system, all being considerably more expensive with a lot of “buzz-word” technology wrapped around them. I end up coming back to, and preferring the relatively inexpensive, no or little foo DH Labs cabling. 

Most of the cabling that that I have tried against the DH Labs, has been similar or just different, but I cannot honestly say that any of it was “better”. Generally, I find this to be true of many hifi things these days, there just doesn’t seem to be those OMG moments to my ears, at least not very often. Maybe that is a good thing really, and could also be why I just listen to music and not worry over that next thing that supposedly “needs” upgrading. 

I have Morrow Audio MA4 interconnects and a DIG4 digital cable.
SP5 Bi Wire speaker cables. All the new version.
The only different one is a Nordost Quatro Fil 5 pin DIN to XLR phono cable.
I’ve had the Quatro Fil for about 20 years.