Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience?

i remember quite a few years back, at a high end audio trade show, over a casual lunch break with one lew johnson and jeff fischel of c-j... talking about lotta things, the subject of mega buck cables came up, lew made a point... in the high end audio business many of the true greats, bill j of arc, carl marchisotto of alon, stew tyler of proac, dennis had of cary and so on... no one makes so much money to live in mansions, have sports car collections, etc etc

the few, rare exceptions seen have always been folks who started cable businesses, noel lee, jim aud, joe reynolds and so on... just some food for thought...

Maybe I missed this in the thread, but what is your budget?

I just bought Elac 14 Ga. They sound the same as the Morrows they replace....and the BlueJeans before that ...and the 10 ga Daytons. It's almost as if cables don't matter...

@secretguy

i found found that cables do matter, but they seem to impact the sound in inverse proportion to the size of the signal they transmit... so most cable sensitive are phono interconnects, then analog or digital interconnects, then speakers cables least (assuming sufficient gauge and basic cable hygiene of course) ... just sharing my personal experience

but if you think about basic physics and notions of resistance, reactance, it does make sense

I was thinking about upgrading my Transparent Super Bi-cables; but, yesterday I grabbed a tool and re-torqued.  On a few of the binding posts I heard an audible "crunch".  And when I resumed listening - wow!  They sound like new speaker cables.  I believe the metal in the spade terminals can crystalize and breaking through that will increase conductivity.  The difference was quite audible.