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Cables for a high-school newbie

Im on an extreemly tight budget. My goal for cables is simply to open up my current system, tighten the bass, and sharpen immaging, i dont want to color the sound at all (well, maybe a tad bit darker to counter the metal dome tweeters on my speakers). I have a sony cd player, Onkyo Tx 8211 reciever and a pair of NHT SB-3s (best speakers under $1k i've heard... and they're only $400 new if you shop around). are cables worth the dough at this level or not, and if so what brands should i be looking at? I need both interconnects and speaker cables. I listen to rock, small group jazz, metal (too bad metalheads can't figure out how to make a decent recording), and classical in that order.
thanks for the help
dk89

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stehno
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I second the Paul Spetlz Anti-cable ($60 for 6ft pair) and Anti-ic (about $60 for 1m RCA pair and $100 for 1m XLR pair).

Some of the best cables you may ever hear. The Anti-cables were slightly better than my highly rated $1800 (retail) bi-wired cables and the Anti-ics made my old $4700 (retail) ics sound bloated and veiled in comparison.

I'm not using the Anti-cables anymore but I keep a complete set of Anti-cables for backups. Which were just loaned out to one who is now ordering his own complete set.

Thus far, these are the second best cable I've heard, they require zero burn-in time and the ics easily outperformed some Signal silver sig ics I've tried.

-IMO
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