Cable upgrades

There are to many good cables to suggest just a few. So I will just go with an unknown oddball brand that can sound as good as $2000 to $3000 cables for $100 to $200 used.

TImeportal is a copper silver wire. The heavy speaker cables were $2000 but can be found for $200, interconnects were $1000 but sell for $100 to $200, power cables were $1000 to $2000 now sell $150 to $200. Problem is they are not easy to sell, but they sound really good even for there retail price.

I know it’s a odd ball suggestion just thought I would throw it out there. They are more like buying a better component than just buying wire to make things sound a little better. 

They have really good bass and dig deep for information. I preferred them to my Acoustic Zen silver reference and some other more expensive cables. The Timeportals were more natural much better bass but could dig as deep for info and detail as AZ. 
 

They also sold under VALABS and King Cables back in the day. I still have some in the closet but will keep them there good enough to keep around. If I was on a budget or not I would check them out. 

I would do an entire loom of Synergistic research SRX 

@pennfootball71 not sure SR is a match with Benchmark. My experience with SR cables is they’re slightly hot up top. That’s most likely going to be too much of a good thing in the OP’s system. 

@pennfootball71 @paulcreed Thanks for the recommends. There certainly are a huge number of manufacturers out there, and they each have many lines to choose from. Seems like, at a certain point, one has to just commit to a solution and enjoy the music.

@audphile1 My limited experience with the 20% silver coated Neotech MkIIIs was exactly as you suggest with my Benchmark rig. It’s amazing how a little emphasis can be too much in the long-term. I found those cables to be interesting at first blush, but ultimately preferred the all copper. Of course, another manufacturer’s silver cables (AZ, for example) might be the perfect fit. Only one way to find out, unfortunately!

Best, JAMES

James…I would stay away from AZ Silver Ref II in that system unless you want to thin it all out.

I’ve gone through the entire AZ cable line with different configurations of Silver and Copper.
 

In my experience the Silver Ref II work best between source and preamp, with Matrix Ref II or Absolute Copper between preamp and amp. That allows for some of the not so great attributes of silver ref to be balanced out by the copper downstream. The most recent use case in my system was the Silver Ref II between the Sutherland 20/20 phono amp and my preamp, with Absolute Copper between preamp and amp. Great combo.
I’ve also used Silver Ref II / Matrix II and Silver / Silver. 
I’m pretty certain with benchmark DAC driving the amp(s) the Silver Ref II is not the right cable.