Where to purchase cables?

I have experimented with lots of DIY and commercial cables without spending too much money. For commercial cables, I buy and sell almost exclusively on A’gon and USAudiomart. If you’re patient, you can buy, test and resell virtually any cable you want and break even. Good luck!

Marching cables to system level is important.  Cheap cables don’t work on a resolving system.  I have a lot of “inexpensive” cables including Blue Jeans collecting dust.

Each company and line within a company has a signature that should be used to enhance or balance to your preferred sound.  A Dark system usually isn’t helped by dark cables.

That means trial and error (me and Blue Jeans), borrowing cables from a dealer or used cables.com or the like.

There is a big difference between most $500 and $1000 cables just like there is a big difference between $1000 and $1500 cables or not depending on the system and your ears.

@rikkipuu 

+1 I have Blue Jean cables collecting dust as well… they sounded the same to me a the budget Best Buy or Amazon. Typically that is the experience I have had with budget brands.

@squared80 Bet your rig sounds awesome.

NOT!

Head on back to AVS or ASR or whatever rock you came from. 

Power cords: whatever came with your system, because anything else won’t matter one single bit.

Speaker wire: any well made 12AWG OFC. Monoprice and Blue Jean Cables are cheap and effective. A coat hanger would literally sound just as good as any expensive snake oil brand but may be tougher to work with. :)

I've got WyWires (Blue series), Morrow (online) and recently Cardas. All are great cables---I've been very impressed with Cardas so far. I purchased the Cardas from Dedicated Audio (online)---they are excellent to deal with. The WyWires I purchased from other smaller local dealers. Let us know what you get.