Biggest Baddest Audio Cables

Big & Bad = MIT Oracles. period.

I was looking back at horsestoharleys posts and I understand what he is saying...the network boxes can do more for the audio signal than any ultra grade wire can.

might chime in to continue on horsetoharley's thoughts on surface area: best cables i ever heard were prana natarajas (i almost bought the cosmos, but i couldnt' afford them). the prana, a silver-foil design, bested IMO the transparent reference MM (older model), jorma #1, isoclean super focus, and everything i owned / demo'd prior to it (fair disclosure, some friends preferred the jorma, which are awesome as well).

maybe the surface area is a big thing? i will concede the networks certainly are...

Excepting for some rare system synergies, silver wires (especially ribbon designs)are just not as musical or tonaly correct. I've had some of the best, and they were far from being musical compared to a well done copper cable.

Perhaps Jeff Weber's "WeberWire" speaker cable: Threshold Corp.'s reference during the Nelson Pass era.

*Cable cross-section = 4 gauge;
*0.00053 Ohm resistance per linear foot for transmission and return paths combined;
*Can manage 100amps rms to 500amp peaks;
*Capacitance = 0.2 nanoFarads per foot;
*Propagation delay = 3 nanoseconds/foot.

Info. from WeberWire/Threshold Corp. brochure. Using WeberWire between our Threshold & Innersound ESL setup.