The Bear Labs cables are made by Randy Bradley, he's a well-known custom builder of tube amps and preamps in upstate NY, which is how I first heard of him. The cables came as a real surprise, a friend that also owns Kharma speakers recommended them to me--because I was too cheap to consider Kharma's own cables :-) The speaker cables I have are silver braid, very professionally done, with spades on all ends, I think he charged me $700 for them (8 foot). The interconnects are REALLY good, I think they go for $400 a pair (I bought a full system re-wiring for a package price, so I don't recall the exact pricing per piece). I can tell you that I listened to Silver Audio and Kimber silver cables, which I thought would be logical alternatives, but the Bear Labs stuff was (IMO) much more coherent and VERY smooth. You should try them! Here's Randy's email, I don't think he has a website: bearlabs@coollink.net Good luck!
