Your experience with Synergistic Research Foundation SX speaker cables?

blisshifi,

The Galileo SX cables do sound interesting, but the Foundation SX are where I’m at right now budget wise. What are your impressions of the Foundation SX? Are they a good value for the money? Do they give a taste of what the Galileos do, for considerably less? I’ve read some opinions that they are a sweet spot in the Synergistic line.

I have SR Master & purple fuses, MiG 3.0s, and Carbon Tuning Dots. Amp is an Antique Sound Lab Tulip 2A3 SET. Speakers are Klipsch KG 4.2s. 

I'm a fan of SR's stuff. I use their Element series speaker cables, which also use the tuning bullets.  I haven't heard their Foundation series, but have heard good things about them. If you like them, go for it. SR is pretty receptive to questions, so I'd reach out to them directly if you have any. They want you to be happy, not necessarily to up-sell you a product you don't need. JM2CW.

I tried the SR Foundation XLRs and power cable as loaners from The Cable Co. lending library. At the time I had Acoustic Zen Matrix Ref II and Absolute Copper interconnects and Acoustic Zen Gargantua power cords. The SR power cord was an improvement in detail and speed but it wasn’t as refined overall. The XLRs didn’t match up to AZ they were slightly grainy and less natural sounding. I never tried the SR Foundation speaker cables. 
Now whatever I heard in my system with my ears doesn’t at all translate into what you will observe with these cables in your set up. Give it a try. But I think going up to next level SR Atmosphere may be a better choice. 

The cables I have been using are old TARA Labs Prism Nexa. The Foundations are quite a step up from those, as they should be. I really like what I’m hearing from them so far, and the price seems reasonable for what I’m getting. However, I haven’t explored speaker cables for years, so have no experience with current, similarly priced, competitors to the Foundations as a reference. Is there anything out there at the same price that will significantly better them?