Audioquest Cables for Calming treble

People seem to be swaying you away from Audioquest, which is certainly fine. I use Acoustic Zen as well (speaker cables), and would certainly consider them a viable option. That aside I do have one AQ Python cable that I think is quite OK and wanted to mention that the older Audioquest Opal cables are pretty cheap on the used market and would probably fit your agenda. I listened to an Opal interconnect that I borrowed from a dealer some time back and remember liking them quite a bit, even though I did not end up purchasing them. Good luck with your search.

Perhaps one day, cables would be discussed here for what they are in generic form. Basically, the above conversion is about the sound of solid core copper and mono crystal stranded copper with the variable of dielectric/terminations. Learn the sound of metals/dielectrics/terminations and save yourself lots of time-money.

OK Reb1208, I, for one, would like to hear a more technical explanation of why various cables sound the way they do. Could you give a description of the sound of various metals/dielectrics/terminations that you are familiar with? Also, what about geometry and shielding effects?

May I suggest that you spend some time over at AA- Cable Forum Archives first. Don't have the time right now.