Speaker Cables

Email me and I will let you know my experience with AZ, Shunyata and Audience speaker cables and let you know what I settled on. Also include your equipment. I am not a dealer or anything.

dtanclim, in my experience cardas cross are very
musical but expensive,I think the AZ are more like
of harmonic technology, HT are excellent cable for
the money.IMO the AZ might probably match your
system, but try this 3 cables.

My 2 cents is that Harmonic Tech is knowhere close to as good as Acoustic Zen cables. I have owned both as well as many others including Nordost SPM, Silversmith, NBS, and most recently a 2 month demo of Audience cables. I am without a doubt convinced that Acoustic Zen cables sound the best in my sytems. I have both Hologram and Satori, and the Hologram is definately better, but I still think a lot of the Satori, they sound very similar, the Hologram just gives you more of what the Satori does. If you want to spend less just get the Satori and don't even worry about it, it is a refrence quality cable and one of the biggest bang for the buck out there.

I had the Santori head to head with a pr of Kimber ks 3035 and a few others popular speaker cables (dealer loans). All I can say is the Kimber ks 3035 made the Santori look like a Honda Accord compared to a top model Mercedes, BMW, Lexus etc. Wasn't close. I ended up with the 3035, no contest at all,, not even close, a commoner to royality, middle class to wealth. For the price the Santori is OK but there are much much better speaker cables out there. If your looking for a great cable,,, forget about the Santori and look else where. It's common for it's price range. It's a laid back presentation with good tonal balance,,, I would say good for helping tame a hot top more aggressive speaker. It's not a bad speaker cable for the price but there are much better.

I think this thread has already gone a long way toward demonstrating once again (as if we needed it) that speaker wire selection is *very* dependent upon system context, particularly as it regards the amp/speaker combination. But then, this is what we love, isn't it? Who cares about music when you've got CABLE...