Taking Suggestions for New Speaker Cables

I've had the Heimdall (love the interconnect, hate the speaker cable), Cardas Neutral Reference, Straight Wire Virtuoso, and Audience AU24.

The AU24 is the cable I prefer most. I've used it with several amps (Pass, Cary, Pathos)

It delivers the weight and warmth of Cardas with the neutrality of the Straight Wire, with the sound stage and clarity of the Nordost.

Once you put it in, I think you'll forget about speaker cable for a while...

I owned the Nordost Valhalla loudspeakercable for 12 years of time. And I sold Nordost for over 9 years ot time. In the past I sold a lot Valhalla and also Valhalla powercords. Nordost was and is still what i call; incomplete. Because it does not have all the different parts you need for all cables togheter. In the past Nordost loudspeakercable with Kimber interconnects was more complete and better liked by all my clients. I often talked about the limitations of Nordost with the people of Nordost. Recently I heard the Valhalla 2 cables. They still have the same limitations togheter. My recent Audioquest Redwood was superior in all different parts compared to my old Valhalla.

Getting the best sound is creating all the different parts which arer needed for the absolute sound. It is that easy and clear!

As Nonoise suggests, Tempo Electric are a bargain and I love them and had them before Nonoise did, so there!! Back @ Ya' :)
Joe Levy is excellent to work with and I agree with his philosophy.
They are worth an investigation.

There are many great cables available out there. With your budget I hope you consider WireWorld. In the past I have used cables from Analysis Plus, Cardas, and MIT (good cables all). I recently put a full set of WireWorld cables in my system and have been very pleased. More than pleased actually, I don't give cables a second thought anymore.

The WireWorld are dynamic, smooth, neutral and very quiet. With you budget I would consider going with an interconnect and speaker cable from the same manufacture. The WireWorld Equinox IC and SC might be very good in your system. Good luck and let us know what you end up going with.

Wescoman, You will now have to try every cable suggested so far, otherwise you'll always be wondering if you missed that "one" with the "MAGIC" :)