"but you can certainly change the tonal balance dramatically with speaker cables"
I disagree with this statement as a general rule and particularly so with respect to the Harbeth line. Unless you talking about connecting up with lamp cord any array of decent quality cables will introduce a marginal impact on sound quality and overall tonal balance. Far too many of us spend too much time obsessing over cables when there are far more important component choices (i.e. loudspeakers) that determine tonal balance and other performance parameters. To say that cables can "dramatically" alter the tonal balance is a vast overstatement in my experience.
I disagree with this statement as a general rule and particularly so with respect to the Harbeth line. Unless you talking about connecting up with lamp cord any array of decent quality cables will introduce a marginal impact on sound quality and overall tonal balance. Far too many of us spend too much time obsessing over cables when there are far more important component choices (i.e. loudspeakers) that determine tonal balance and other performance parameters. To say that cables can "dramatically" alter the tonal balance is a vast overstatement in my experience.