Using 2 different brands of interconnects?

As long as the budget for cables make sense with respect to the entire system.  If you spend $1000 for a interconnect but your entire system is at $1000, there is something wrong there.  

But we do have sh-tton of arguments going on, though.

If you want to hang around for the fists thrown and ideological soap box enabled ego chest thumping posing as self affected logic derivatives..... there will be lots of it going on in this thread in.. (looks at watch)... a short while.

Stick around for the comedy show, if you can take it.....

Why, this might turn out to be this Friday nights mosh pit! Never know!

As for two different cables, well, don’t cross the streams.

“ …. $100 is relatively inexpensive for interconnects. The correct answer is, “it depends” the better your components, the bigger the difference you are likely to hear. But if your components are under a couple thousand each, it is unlikely to be noticable…”

+ 1 ….

(1) Everything in this hobby is built to its price point. At a very modest budget strata price-point for cables at $100, it is generally distilled down to just pick one of the popular brands …. And buy them pre-owned.

(2) If the audio system as a whole is unable to provide the requisite resolution for using high-end cables, its a wasted and expensive exercise.

Get whatever sounds the very best you can afford, period. You will be amazed how well this works.

This, and no harm to match brands but better still get ones from same manufacturer.

I understand this is a charged topic and there have been a lot of debates already about it. To refocus us again, let me mention that my question is not about expense or the value of cables in general or anything along those lines. It’s just the mixing of different brands when you need to use more than one interconnect. I’ve received a lot of perspective on this and I appreciate it.