The best speaker cables you’ve had

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@jtcf   Dave at Zenwave does indeed make some amazing cables. One of these days I need to try his speaker cables in my system. I am super impressed with his ic's and his pc's. 

Current and best speaker cables I have heard are Shunyata Research Comp Sigma 2. Before that I had a pair of the Sigma 1 and before that Cardas Clear Beyond. Both the Cardas and Sigma 1 were very good but the Sigma 2 were better in my system. 

own, Gr Research 16 strand

I read that Magnepans love power and got the idea that ‘bigger might be better’, so I got 8AWG cables, 10ft each, as an experiment.

They’re 100% OCC copper with a 400-something strands with a micro-coating of silver.

I had already been using 10 gauge OCC copper, so I didn’t expect much, but they sounded noticeably better, and sound fine on all of my other speakers.

I’ve read that some amplifiers expect a certain resistance load and that over-doing it with the cable-gauge can cause problems, but have no issues with a Nakamchi PA-5.

Of course, these aren’t name-brand big-money cables, but I did pay attention to the quality of the metal.