Best Sounding Speaker Cables?

"In my opinion, that would be cables which negatively change or affect the sound the least. I’d start with the right geometry foremost. Conductor spacing is paramount to proper LCR. Then you want that geometry held in place without any relatable insulation ... No skin effect. Imagine a cable with the pos and neg conductors floating in space, perfectly equal distant apart. (impossible, but idea) The conductors should have the best silver, mixed with an alloy to allow the silver to shine, (like Mundorf, but without that sheen it has). One without any of the negative possible aspects of some silver. The cable should be damped for vibrations. And the connectors are less known than most popular boutique brands (WBT, Eichmann, etc) , but simply be better by design. Actually they are about the perfect design imo." These would be the perfect cables for me ..."

I pasted that from an email I saved 10 years ago. Written by a great friend. He actually made the cables described above, and figured out those challenges. And I get to use them in my system exclusively! But he is a friend, so it is a perk. I would personally steer clear of most of the big expensive brands. I sold my Valhalla cables when I changed to my friends cables and made enough to seriously upgrade my system. The main thing I was saying, is I like to steer clear of the expensive big cable brands, and that is my suggestion. But I hope you find sonic nirvana with the cables you end up with, and your future audio journey! Cheers

" Erastof, if you are interested in an objective or more science-based approach to this question, check this out:

The Best Speaker Cable | Reviews by Wirecutter (nytimes.com) "
  THIS is exactly right. Monoprice 12g by the 100' spool is all I have used for years. For me it's waste your money or spend your money and 12g Monoprice is all you will ever need. Avoid banana plugs and use fork crimp connectors. Solder if you are concerned about connection quality and no I don't mean fancy silver solder. If you must use banana plugs then rather than use bare wire and tighten down (which always seems to magically work loose here and require checking before I hook up another set of speakers for demo or testing) use crimp fork connectors and once tight these never seem to lost their grip.

@ghdprentice
" Sorry but this is not a valuable source. This is simply a review of a bunch of cheap cables with reference to a couple of electrical characteristics. Of no value to someone serious about high quality sound reproduction. "
This is precisely what gives the word audiophile a bad taste to most. Pretentious dollar slinging denial of superior quality to be had at reasonable prices. To rephrase your comment I might say....
" Sorry but this is not a valuable source. This is simply a review of a bunch of cheap cables with reference to a couple of electrical characteristics. Of no value to someone serious about aspirations of golden ear preten(d)tious high quality sound reproduction.

I propose a descriptive way of referring to these types of people. Like the S after a comment means sarcasm perhaps Audiophile$ would be appropriate for those with the metric of if it did not cost a bunch it can’t possibly sound superior.

 At the end of the day I don't really care how much someone spends for audio. They support businesses with their money. What I find irritating is the presumption of superior knowledge and impeccable taste somehow becomes the domain only of those who feel compelled to spend lots of money to purchase their gear. This stupid attitude seems to grow in direct proportion to the $$ spent in the vast majority of cases. $500 dollar unobtanium infused fuses anyone? If they did not improve sound they could not possibly charge that much now could they. Right?

If speaker cables have a sound, then something is wrong with them.

😂Yes but that is true of everything. Nothing is ever perfect. Everything affects the sound one way or another. So this tells us nothing.

The geometry flaxxer describes is basically the Townshend F1. Max Townshend worked out the optimal conductor spacing from LCR and engineered the design based on that. Plenty of others use a similar closely spaced ribbon geometry. Townshend actually optimized it to be impedance matched with the speakers, eliminating a lot of ringing, which turns out to be a major source of the sound of different designs. F1 doesn't do that, and so has much less of a sound of its own. Not cheap, but outstanding performance.