Cumulative Effects of Cables?

I have done it both ways (all silver, all copper and now I use a combination of pure silver and copper "micro" wires), there is really no exact right or wrong, IMO. I have never matched all cables (including the speaker and power cables) from one manufacturer yet, but am leaning to trying this with the Mapleshade line when I can afford it and am also able to reduce the length of my speakers cable runs. Right now I am using a Mapleshade Double Helix digital IC with Homegrown Super Silver anaolog IC's and I really like the combo with both my SS and tube amps. I also like to trade off with Harmonic Truthlink analog IC's on occasion, so I guess that mixing it up has worked well with my setup(s). There have of course been cables that spoiled the recipe as well. Right now I am hot on Analysis Plus speaker cables vs my current Kimber cables and like anything else I will just have to purchse/memo the AP cables and give them a listen myself. Good luck.

Perfect: My mixing of Mapleshade (micro copper) and Homegrown (pure solid core silver) brought a little more warmth to my system without sacrificing detail. the combo sounds more musical to me. I had tried another copper digital IC by Canare (before the Mapleshade) and it made my system sound closed and dull in the HF's. It was not happening by any means. I am not against using cable all from one manufacturer, I have just not yet had the opportunity to try such a setup. If I want a fatter sound I switch the Truthlinks with the silver IC's (I like this combo for poor source material and I also kind of favor it for some classical material as well). It is almost like having different systems to me and the IC's don't compress the sound like ordinary tone controls would. My wife likes the Truthlinks a little more probably because her HF hearing is superior to mine. Kind of on the subject, she (my wife) also really likes a new 300b tube amp that I just picked up (with the cheap Chinese output tubes) but may not like it as much when I boost the HF's with JJ tubes. I will start with Svetlana's which should be a little more rolled off in the HF's. IC's, cables, tubes - they all sound different to me, it's just what you/I/we like that counts.