Best wires for cost

Since Stealth has already come up, maybe I won't be hammered for throwing in my impressions. Full disclosure: I know the designer, so assume a bias if you wish. I used to make cables like homegrown's, with relatively thick silver, and thought they were pretty nice. I used Kimber AGSS too, and made KCAG clones, as well as "time-aligned" attempts, with solid core wire combined with longer AGSS. When I heard my first Stealth cables, I gave up my cable-making career in a hurry, though I loved, and still love, being a DIY type. If there's any truth in Malcolm O. Hawksford's "The Essex Echo", a huge number of cable manufacturers are using wire that's MUCH too thick to make a really good cable. Stealth, and some other makers--Cardas, for one--don't make this mistake, and in a good system, their cables will show their superiority. In lesser systems, inferior cables may not show up as such. Something else needs to be improved first.

Recently received DH Labs TC-14 to bi-wire my Kestrels. Was using AQ 4TC. Immediately better soundstage, air, and, well, reality. Vivaldi flute concerto in D(Chesky cd 78)not more but better growl from the double bass and a greater feeling of a moving air column from the flute. Being a trombone player and having played the fugue from the Brahm's first a million times, I went straight to that; the sonority from Szell and the Cleveland as well as Haitink wuth the Concertgebouw (Columbia and Philips, respectively, hardly audiophile labels)was, well, more sonorous. If you're cheap like me, you should give them a shot.

dh labs purchased through aci website.

Don't know "aci", bought them from value audio posted on this site

Coincident IC at 299.00 are very very good.Better than stuff 2/3 times the price.They are very nuetral wont cover or hide deficiencies in you other components.If y