HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ?

In 1995 I had the chance to cable my system with Transparent Reference. It was not a subtle difference! I tried the Super, the Ultra and the Reference all within a weeks time. you could point to the soundstage with the change of each set of cables and discern the difference each cable yielded.  The reference gave the most improvement. It provided more separation of instruments and voice. The soundstage was wider. I could distinguish vocals that were muddy with other cables. Try to find the original series used! People hold onto them! Joe

as with most of us, the cables that I use in my system have evolved overtime. Each time I swapped cables, I felt there was an improvement in the sound. I wouldn’t say that it was a tremendous difference, but it was subtle but better. After I started swapping in Shunyata research power cords and then speaker cables, I felt that for my system there was real synergy and a distinct positive improvement in sound. I wouldn’t say that my system went from good to great as a result, but there was definitely an improvement that made the system sound closer to what I like. Then I started upgrading my Shunyata cables from Alpha‘s to Sigma‘s and there was a noticeable step up in sound quality. The same thing occurred when I started to swap out my interconnects for Shunyata Sigma interconnects. A noticeable but small improvement. The bottom line, each time I upgraded a cable, it added some benefit to the sound. Cumulatively, I was very pleased with the result. Weather spending all that money on cables was worth the improvement in the sound quality is a matter of personal preference. To me, it was.

I use Canare Starquad cables throughout my system, mostly for noise rejection, and it's dead quiet.  The genius that is John Siau, agrees with this, and that is what they, (Benchmark), offer for sale with their components.

https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/chatgpt-and-john-siau-discuss-star-quad-cables

Also on a recent Audioholics episode, he categorically lists the components in the audio chain that are most important to overall sound in terms of distortion, and guess what part of the chain is least important, that's right, cables.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIv79_NRASw

I swapped out AQ Fire XLRs for Firebirds and was truly shocked by the improvement. The Firebirds are more balanced, natural and refined. I also demoed the XLR Thunderbirds alongside the Firebirds. Surprisingly, the silver Fire and copper Thunderbirds sounded more alike than the silver Fire and silver Firebirds. The Firebirds are neutral and highly detailed without being fatiguing.

@calvinj  I'll put the your name through to a cable connoisseur/collector who'll show up at my house tomorrow.

I'm more in the business of living vicariously through him and a few other dudes these days. 

@deep_333 o rn the infigo cables demo program. Would you like to,try something.  No cost you only pay shipping back.