Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance?

Well, I did pick up a run of Morrow SP2(bare wire ends as Morrow suggests) for my center channel. I must say, this is the best and clearest my center speaker has been so far.

Actually, I bi-amped the center speaker by running the Morrow to the HF posts, and some old Esoteric heavy gauge to the LF posts. I had previously been using a set of Alpha Core MI2. The Morrow is immediately noticeably clearer, and without any added harshness or sibilance that I can detect. Again, the MI2 may be at a disadvantage due to being terminated with bananas vs bare wire on the Morrow. I might like to try some MI2 with bare terminations.

Vic Morrow was great in "Combat".

let me share an experience, which may seem off topic, but illustrates an important principle.

a fiend was rummaging through a box of interconnect and digital cable. he came upon a digital cable, consontructed as follows:

two parallel runs of enameled wire, 34 gauge, separated by 3/4 inch weather stripping and crimped to a pair of radio shack cheap plastic connectors.

in his system we compared the enameled cable to others and his system sounded terrific with his home-made enameled cable.

then he found a pair of interconnects. wire was around the same gauge , covered by a plastic jacket and the parallel runs were separated by the same 3/4 felt. hooked them up and again the cables acquitted themselves very well.

the point is that the idea of the "best" of anyting is a limited term, because it does not take into account many brands that have not been mentioned.

in addition, it is possible to construct your own which may be better than many of the suggestions.

obviously, if you construct your own, it is time consuming and there may be many rejects.

i would just listen to as many cables in your price range as possible, and learn as much as you can about wire and any information pertaining to speaker amplifier interactions with cable that may lead to unpleasant results.