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warmest speaker cables you've heard?

I'm looking for a short length of speaker cables, which i need to be as warm as possible..
Price wise, looking at USD700 and below for 1m length pair.

it'll be placed in between an Apollon stereo 1et400a power amp and a RAAL-requisite SR1a speaker adaptor box.
The SR1a is ruthless and clinical and I am looking to add as much warmth as I can. 

Assume the rest of the gear and interconnects have been decided/cannot be swapped out. So just left with the speaker cables to sort out.

I've been told the following are good candidates:
Kimber 8TC
Tellurium Q Black II
Tellurium Ultra Blue

Anything else I should be looking at?
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jjss49
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All speaker wires must come in the following temperature configurations:
Warm
Medium-Warm
Medium-Cold
Cold.


what a great idea - hehehe...

where is consumer reports when you finally need em??
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docroasty OP
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@pauly thanks! your sentiments on cables and EQ echo mine. 

@twoleftears i have the cardas clear reflection in the system between the pre and power amp, and it is one of my favourite interconnects. i had the golden presence, and also stupidly sold off a set of unused golden reference. i will look into their line of speaker cables.

@ troidelover1499 i do have a spare set of Canare 4S11 star quads lying around somewhere! need to go dig those out from the store room... i used those to test some speakers briefly and then put them away. at least i will have something to compare with.
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docroasty OP
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@tubegeek1950 oh i most definitely agree.. i love the sound a tube amplifier brings to the table. i do have a tube headphone amp with pre capability; it is in my other system, but am able to move it around to hook it up into the intended Raal chain. Will see if it "warms" the sound up much.
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docroasty OP
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@czarivey lol I wish there was a way to upvote your post! It should be an industry standard for manufactures to put your warmth rating for cables on their websites.. Haha! 
manogolf
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Get on the merry go round. I stayed for a year, lost my deposit after giving up on every trial cable sent my way. Those cables did not give the rise I was looking for and finally I was pointed to Iconoclast by the company that took my deposit money. I read on this forum it's all about the geometry but did not entirely grasp what that meant. Geometry balances frequency, capacitance, resistance and inductance. 

Happy hunting
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