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Cable Suggestions for my system?

Greetings,
I’m seeking your recommendations for the final segment of my system upgrade – interconnects and speaker cables.

My system consists of:
Grand Prix Monaco equipment stand
dCS Verdi; need AES/EBU 1 or 1.5 meter digital interconnect to
dCS Elgar+; need 1 pair RCA/RCA 1.0 meter interconnect to
Art Audio Jota SET amp (with KR 300BXLS tubes, etc.) ; Need 2.5 meter/8’ speaker cables to
Avantgarde Duo hornspeakers.

Now, I recently tried the PS-500 and found it substantially veiled the sound. Prefer straight out of the wall – I’ve run two lengths of 10GA wires to the main breaker box. Thus, at this point, my only focus is cables and their generating sonic improvements in my system.

FYI - my hearing is check annually and is excellent, but I like to listen to my music at fairly loud levels – not damaging loud, just want to be enveloped by the sound.

Currently, cables are:
Stealth M-7 Varidag digital and interconnects (silver).
Silversmith speaker cables run in shotgun to the mid and tweeter horns and jumped to subs.

Music I like: World Music/New Age – Agricantus, Delirium, Vas, Enigma, Mythos, Libera, Vollenweider, Mouth Music, Loreena McKennitt, Hibernia, Deuter, Deep Forest. This listing gives you an idea of the importance of the percussion and female vocals in my music.

What I’m trying to accomplish is to pull out some of the brightness from the highs – just about 5% is all – yet retain ALL of the detail. System has just a bit too much “bite” on the highs in some passages.

Considering:
Nordost Valhallas
Siltech
Stereovox (currently auditioning/burning in – too soon to tell – but beautifully constructed)

Listened to the Audience au24 – substantial loss of detail and bass was not as crisp as I like.

I've recently started to think a good idea would be to keep the silver on the interconnects to carry the detail and then go with a silver/copper hybred speaker cable to just take the edge off of the brightness.

I would appreciate your suggestions and lessons learned.
Thanks,
Jack
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richards
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May be hard to beat the Silversmiths, but another cable to put on your list is the HMS Gran Finale. They replaced silver cables in my (solid state) system and actually gave more detail, but in a distinctly musical way, without any grain, etch, or excessive top-end bite.

I've used some pretty expensive speaker cables, but haven't tried some of the super expensive ICs you're considering...Most recently, I've used AZ Silver Ref, Jena Symphony, Nordost QF and Luminous Synch. Ref (a great buy!)for ICs, and Wireworld Silver Eclipse III speaker cables, and found the HMS far superior to any of them IMS.

See the HMS review at 6moons....he also uses Duos with tubes.
Good luck.
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