Buying advice


I have an Arcam FMJ A19 driving a pair of KEF LS50s. Maybe it’s a tad, just a smidge, bright. I don’t even want to use that word because I know it’s audiophile death. Maybe it’s better to say that I’d like to take a step—just a step—in the Harbeth direction. Import a rounder, smoother, warmer sound into the mix. And I’m thinking that speaker cables might help. 

I’m constrained by a very small bank account and grave limitations on room correction. 

There’s a pair of Morrow SP2 cables for sale on this site for $66. The price is right but are those going to take me where I want to go? If not, any suggestions? Please keep in mind the constraints noted above.

Crazy paranoia: The Morrows are 10 feet long as opposed to the 6 foot length of my current Q.E.D. cables. (From Q Accoustics.) That extra length can’t possibly affect the sound, can it?
Thank you.
paul6001

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Wow. Tough talk. But well appreciated. Part of me thinks that bad cables might help. Cable makers and reviewers go on and on about transparency and clarity. I want less of those things. Maybe I’d be better off with lamp cord. 
I know that the speaker cables I’m talking about are very cheap by audiophile standards. But until the Arcam seller talked me into making some kind of investment, I was leader of the “cables don’t matter” army.

Wanna know something else? After I had them for a bit, the sound actually changed. They burned in! Another audio myth legitimized?

I’m still not quite ready to accept what I heard first hand, with my own ears. Science must be right and I must be the victim of some neurological prank. Otherwise, what do we have? Where is the science upon which our civilization is grounded?