is interconnect more important than speaker cable

If you are happy with your system as is, be happy! You've already done your fair share of supporting the cable industry. For my main system I bought some Cardas Hexlink years ago and my equipment either works with it or it don't - no more "new and better" cable for this kid. I'd rather spend my money on software. :-)

Dealer markup on cables is more than on speakers. This is fair, because it takes a lot more hype to sell them.

These guys are right, the key phrase to remember is:

"you should spend...."

steve

When you bought your last car,did the commissioned salesperson try to add on a rustproofing package and a pin stripe decal for only $150? How about a rear deck airfoil spoiler,when the de facto speed limit is 70mph?

Since you asked first,spend your money on software.

I'm guessing with a system as good as yours,you experimented with placement enough to get it correct,an excercise that did not cost you any money.

Hi,

I wanted to thank everyone for responding. I might have not written the post as clearly as I should have. I do not buy things just because other people suggest it. I recently upgraded my interconnect from quattro fil to valhalla and it improved it.

So my question was if improving the interconnect made a difference, maybe I should improve the speaker cable. I thought however that since I had been told it was more important to improve the interconnect, I left the speaker cable as is until I made all the other changes I wanted.

I obviously will decide based upon hearing it with my own ears but wanted to know if there was any science to the notion that interconnects are more important (all else being equal to a system than speaker cables. Clearly you need good ic and speaker cables but was wondering whether if you were going to spend more on one than the other are ic's relatively more important than speaker cables and why?

Michael