Affordable cables

I own 2 systems. The second one consists of mostly dirt-cheap components (for instance, $59, 158..). I took lots of pain assembling the much more expensive first one, especially matching cables to each component, and it sounds divine. What I'd learned from the experience, I applied to the 2nd one. Quite surprisingly, it worked wonders. On some recordings, I like it better even. So I believe even the cheap electronics will benefit from well-matching cables. Please note that I didn’t say expensive, but well-matching.

Yeah, I am (in theory) an EE, but I have to say that it ALL seems to matter.  Some to a greater degree than others.  Just replaced my power conditioner and was shocked at how good it sounded.

Cables?  Yep.  You can go quite crazy on them.  I have found that Tridoe Wire Labs cables are a great blend of price/performance.  I use them for all my interconnects and most power.  But I have also demoed Shunyata and Transparent, the latter never left.

And ethernet???  It just shouldn't matter.  Just no.  But it does.

Audio Envy cables are excellent,I recently tried their interconnects and power cords.They are way way better than their low price would have you believe.

Blue Jeans cables make some extremely nice interconnects as well as spkr cables. 

Take a look at AntiCables. I think they have an entry level IC around $125. I’ve had good results with them.