advice or suggestions for beginner on cables

Some will count this an heretical suggestion but I propose that you begin with good quality, heavy speaker wire from Monster. Put the connectors on yourself. See how it sounds. If you're happy, get on with your life. If not, try borrowing some cables. Do some very rigorous comparative listening. Don't go apeshit and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars solely on advice from others.

Some folks are going to tell you with religious conviction that cables are everything. Others are going to tell you with the glint of scientific truth in their eyes that cable makes no difference at all so long as it is heavy enough to avoid voltage drop and well terminated. Only you can decide what you hear. The method I've proposed gets you in cheap and leaves you wide open to experiment.

Good luck. Let us know what you decide.

will

I merely argue that our friend should decide for himself what is significant and what is not, rather than having that decision made for him. Perhaps he will end up with something hugely expensive but that should be his call, not ours.

will