Taking Suggestions for New Speaker Cables

I would suggest to listen to some Audioquest cables. Look for those who have DBS72v. The difference between MIT and Audioquest has become huge. With different clients I had superior results with Audioquest against MIT cables. MIT needs to do a lot of research to catch up.

FWIW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:

I've had both the ARROs and FORESTs in a prior system.
I swapped in and out many different speaker cables and I settled on three listed below (in descending order of preference)

(1) TOTEMs own "SINEW" cables + ATLAS ASCENT 3.0 cables bi-amped:
The SINEW are silver plated copper. Most if not all of the TOTEMs are internally wired these.( = synergy!) I had them to the tweeters with heavier gauge ATLAS ASCENT 3.0 to the woofers .

(2) TOTEMs own SINEW bi-wired

(3) CHORD Oddyssey bi-wired or bi-amped.

The SINEW and CHORD are very similar in both construction and in performance with silver plated copper cable.

I found the TOTEMs to be "picky" in favour of silver plated copper speaker cables and also to the ICs. I ran them with matched ATLAS NAVIGATOR all_cu ICs.

What the heck, try some Tempo Electric speaker cables. If you go with bare wire ends, it'll cost you less than half your budget. They are .9999 silver, soft annealed and I couldn't be happier with mine, so there.

All the best,
Nonoise

Thanks for the suggestions. I really appreciate what everyone had to say. I finally contacted the Cable Company and spoke to Ethan. He will send me some cables to try out from their lending library. I agree with the assessment that it's not necessary to go overboard on price. Ethan suggested some mid-price cables from Kimber, Purist Audio, and WireWorld for starters. I will also check out the speaker cables that Totem sells exclusively for their speaker line. Again, appreciate the recommendations.

Totem correction:

they are "TRESS"; not "SINEW"
the latter are their ICs ...braincramp I guess (sigh)