Speaker cables with good timbre

Hi audiogabby...thanks for your question,

A reminder we are all on differing phases and stages of our hobby-pastime-passions.  Having worked intimately with a small cable manufacturer, I look for similar tastes in presentation to mine.  I suspect George Cardas and I would have a grand time in a listening session.  Additionally, tonality - timbre...sounds as YOU know them, is always primary to my goals as well, audiogabby. 

My limited budget solution was buying a run of used Cardas Clear Sky X4 cables and retrofitting one end to bi-wired at the loudspeakers by Cardas.  I also upgraded the 12 ends to forged spade connectors.  Time has taught me the connectors can be AS or MORE important than the wire.  

Cutting Open a Forged Spade

Clear Sky | Cardas Audio      (scroll to X4 Speaker)

The X4 is a biwire design, however, the Cardas Tech cautioned biwiring the ends may not be appropriate for full range applications, particularly the deep bass.  My situation was okay as I cut off the 80hZ at my pro Focusrite DAC, sending deep bass only  to my RymiK L12 subwoofer.  Above 80hZ, using SPDIF from the Focusrite, that signal is sent to my NEW Geshelli J2 DAC, running the most current AK4499 dac chip along with the terrific Sparkos 2590 op amps.  Never has $555 been spent more wisely in my long hi fi journey.   

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@mashif Cardas is well known for their copper quality. I recently purchased a pair of Clear Sky X4 speaker cables. They are remarkably balanced with no particular emphasis on any frequency range. 

imo, probably the best value in the lineup for the cost. Less grainy sounding than Parsec, or in my system at least. If you jump up to Cygnus quad wire it gets to be even more detailed. Clear Reflection has its own old/new design blended from Cardas with a tad more weight and richness I like. Standard Clear is exactly that.

Some people who've never tried any of them love to jump in and report expensive cables don't make a difference. Cardas does. .Good, better, bad, or just different - in a transparent system there is truly a different result with each of these cables. Congrats on the Clear Sky X4. 

DACs and cables. The biggest black hole money pit in audio. This is a merry-go-round I stay away from. Sort of interesting to start to read a thread like this until it becomes so tedious that my eyes begin to cross. So many people think that you must try a bunch of different cables to achieve that magic "synergy " we hear so much about. With all the different recommendations suggested about companies, most of which I (speaking for myself) have never heard, finding the right cable seems to become a daunting/impossible task.

To be clear, I am not a cable denier. I am very much a sceptic. I have actually spent insignificant amounts of many on interconnects lately since I replaced some "mature" equipment in my system, I have kept them in place for just in case, even though I can't actually detect any significant difference.

If you have the discretionary funds that you can afford to spend significant amounts of money chasing Nirvana, more power to you. I, OTOH, although I could spend significantly more than I have, choose to enjoy a more diverse selection in my golden years. Many will disagree, but that's OK. Just my rant of the day.

OP - I too am running Totem Forest Signatures and using Audio Envy's SP14 ribbon speaker cables made with OCC copper and an active ground.  Good luck in your search.  

https://audioenvy.com/product/speaker/sp14/

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