Copper foil

Dgad, yours is a thoughtful, and educated response. Thank you.

My ribbons dangle in the air. Having never heard them lying on the floor, I will take your word it isn't recommended. I know Speltz warns of the same thing on his almost naked wires.

I had a Tesla on my system for an audition. We were comparing it to a Speltz IC. There was a difference, albeit small. The Tesla either sounded a bit cleaner, or it masked a bit of detail. If we had more time...

I have heard MIT on lots of systems. My prejudice tells me the systems sounded good despite the MITs.

I concur with Dgad on the sound effect of the floor. The phase effect or shift is a sensitive factor in my set up. I don't declare that its the most revealing (resolution) but music flow and soundstage is paramount.

Foils seem to offer a nice presentation at a bargain price. When people like Dave Magnan making foil speaker cables, I take note. He has been designing cables for as far as I can remember (15 years).

Foils is lowsy leaders compared to thicker circular or other shapes. Might look exotic but ruins soundquality used as cables. Foil conductors on the other hand gives a clean sound, and many seems to mix that up not realising why they sound cleaner.

Foil conductors. Anyone know of a designer who builds silver or copper foil for IC's?

Nordost, Goertz, Mapleshade, Allen Wright/VSE are a few. McMaster-Carr sells raw electronics-grade copper and there are several small distributors of silver foil.