All time favorite speaker cables

02-08-08: Mrtennis
so far, 16 companies have been mentioned as sources of favorite speaker cables.

if the purpose of the thread is to obtain ideas for purchasing a speaker cable, how does one make use of 16 suggestions (opinions) ?

True. Everybody seems to answer with whatever they have in their system right now. Unless they give a list of all their components, the info is not very useful.

So, to your point, I'll say I've owned and used Straightwire, AudioQuest, Kimber, Monster, Tributaries, TARA, Transparent, Audio Magic, MIT, Zu, Kimber, Sony, and PS Audio.

But my absolute favorite, and what I'd cable everything in the house with if I could afford it, would be high level Transparent. It is my absolute favorite, whether you're using an integrated amp or separates, digital or LP, tube or SS, Magnepan, Martin-Logan, mini-monitors, Wilson, Vandersteen, GoldenEar, Krell, McIntosh, Classe, Audio Research, VTL, Ayre, Linn, or Peachtree, Transparent (IMO) provides the most balanced, most natural-sounding signal transfer I've ever heard.

between a krell ksa 80 and b&w 703 i have fallen in love with kimber 8tc.When i say in love i mean that i have shaved my head sold all my possession and now live at the kimber parking lot.

So far, ASI Livelines. They may be my last.

PranaWire Nataraja closely followed by Stealth

For me it turned out to be an absolute boutique cable from Einstein Audio, their Greenline Largo, Unisono combo has beaten everything else I tried by a long shot. The production of these specific cables have stopped now. Volker, the designer of all Einstein audio products admits that these were the very best cables he has ever made. They are outstanding, though they are not known outside Europe all that much.