Best Sounding Speaker Cables?


Cardas Clear, Nordost Frey 2, Clarus Crimson? Strengths? 
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@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?

😂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.
I had a very expensive pair of Cardas speaker cables in the past and I am currently using Morrow cables. These Morrow's are amazingly good and very affordable.