Not familiar with your AQ Big Surs but know the Kimbers well. Used to own the 4TC and it is a good cable. I like Kimber and was the one that got one of the local shops to pick them up some twenty years ago and they still carry them. I have a couple of Kimber PK10 Gold PC's and really like them; compared to some others and they are really good. My recent WyWires PC has passed them up though.
The first item I bought from Paul of Clear Day Cables was his Double Shotguns and was blown away by them. The Double Shotguns just get out of the way and sound like nothing is there. I took them over to by Dads system to compare to his older but still very nice AQ Sterling II's and I felt the Clear Day's felt more open and less like a tone control.
Later I took them over to the local Kimber dealer and we compared them to the Kimbers 8TC and they were floored; it wasn't even close and they were surprised to say the least. I know because I brought my pair in they have had at least four of their long time customers buy Clear Days and one of the employees their has bought Pauls speaker cables as well and he can obviously buy Kimbers at cost.
Later I bought Pauls jumpers and compared them against much pricier Nordost and the Clear Days were just better. I do use the connection pattern Nordost recommends to hooking up jumpers and it does sound better. Next I tried several sets of Pauls single ended IC's and feel they are very good but maybe the Double Shotguns are the better until I picked up a balanced cable from Paul. The balanced cable is excellent. The single ended IC's are sill very good but the balanced cable is stupid good for the money. Forgot to mentioned prior to buying the Clear Days IC,s I was using a set of my Dads Kimber KCAG's, which is a very nice IC and felt the Clear Days where equal to; the balanced cable just pulls away.
I used to agree IC's were more important or the first thing to upgrade but after moving over to all Clear Days I recommend speaker cables first. I will add I feel power cords are maybe just as important and I feel they have transformed my system just as much but dedicated circuits and decent receptacles are required to get the best of it.
The first item I bought from Paul of Clear Day Cables was his Double Shotguns and was blown away by them. The Double Shotguns just get out of the way and sound like nothing is there. I took them over to by Dads system to compare to his older but still very nice AQ Sterling II's and I felt the Clear Day's felt more open and less like a tone control.
Later I took them over to the local Kimber dealer and we compared them to the Kimbers 8TC and they were floored; it wasn't even close and they were surprised to say the least. I know because I brought my pair in they have had at least four of their long time customers buy Clear Days and one of the employees their has bought Pauls speaker cables as well and he can obviously buy Kimbers at cost.
Later I bought Pauls jumpers and compared them against much pricier Nordost and the Clear Days were just better. I do use the connection pattern Nordost recommends to hooking up jumpers and it does sound better. Next I tried several sets of Pauls single ended IC's and feel they are very good but maybe the Double Shotguns are the better until I picked up a balanced cable from Paul. The balanced cable is excellent. The single ended IC's are sill very good but the balanced cable is stupid good for the money. Forgot to mentioned prior to buying the Clear Days IC,s I was using a set of my Dads Kimber KCAG's, which is a very nice IC and felt the Clear Days where equal to; the balanced cable just pulls away.
I used to agree IC's were more important or the first thing to upgrade but after moving over to all Clear Days I recommend speaker cables first. I will add I feel power cords are maybe just as important and I feel they have transformed my system just as much but dedicated circuits and decent receptacles are required to get the best of it.