Best Sounding Speaker Cables?

" I equate these “what is best” threads to trolling since there is no best and in our hobby there is so much room for subjective taste And system synergy."

Agreed, although I’d call it something other than "troll". More like the "Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right" thread.

The one side being those who post how "their" cables are neutral, and by implication their equipment and setups are neutral, and everyone else’s are "tone controls". The other, the hard of hearing crowd who claim flex sounds a well as anything out there and then get very testy and verbally abusive because some of us have functional hearing and dare state that we can hear the difference..

That is easy, it depends. On your system and values. To my tastes and system the Cardas are a touch too warm, and the Nordost are a touch on the cool side of neutral and lack bass.. I am not that familiar with the other.

I have owned a number of Cardas and have always found them on the warm side of neutral, loosing some high end details, or at least putting it in the background. I have auditioned some Nordost Frey 2… they did not work well at all with my equipment too harsh. I feel that Transparent cables and interconnects in all my systems have been neutral… with my current components a very good thing… something that was not a good thing when I had much lower level components.

Thank you ghdprentice! Great feedback!

More like the "Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right" thread.

There's a small third group. We don't recommend what we own or anything else other than what integrates into the system well.

For the googleth time, Specific FanBoy recommendations are WORTHLESS unless the equipment, room, program and listener are exact duplicates!

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