I've found Kimber and Synergistic's products to allow increasing ambient info through, while decreasing in their editorializing of tonality/timber/etc, as I moved up their product line.
Both manufacturers' lower priced products are VERY good, as regards transparency, but: everything gets better, moving up the price scale.
Of course: that's in my room, with my system and there are a multitude of variables.
(Everything @ghdprentice said, +1)
Something that has served many well, for a number of years, is the Cable Company's 'Lending Library'. An excellent way to experiment with a variety of components, for a fraction of list.
https://www.thecableco.com/cable/index/borrowform