Freshpuma, I would suggest that you audtion either Acoustic Zen Silver reference II's or Matrix reference II's. They have the virtues that highenders like ,but for me they also have that natural/organic sense of real music that I find quite relaxing. Both are very reasonably priced but the Matrix wires give about 80% of the performance of the Silver wires at half the price. I did a reveiw of the new AZ Absolute cables recently here on the GON, so if you want more details concerning the above mentioned ICs you might want to take a look. As you know you have to try all wires in your own system to see they have both synergy with your system and match your personnal taste. So good luck, hope this helps with your audtioning process.