How goofy is this?

After listening more I started noticing an edginess in the highs that was becoming very irritating. Thin, grainy, unnatural. Violins sounded artificial and annoying.

Switched the ibis to the high and au24e to the low, and the edginess was resolved, but while there's still better detail and resolution than the audioquest, the sound is very 2-dimensional, flat, uninvolving. Less bass, but what is there is better controlled and a little less boomy so I give it "even" on that count but not ideal.

I'm hoping that when the jumpers finally get here and I switch to single wired that the downsides will resolve and I'll see improvements over the audioquest. If not, back they go in service until I find something that offers better synergy with my system.

Speaker cables so far have been the toughest piece of the puzzle for me.

Jumpers (zu ibis) are in with the Ibis speaker cables now. SC to high posts jumpered to low.

Big improvement. Sound has gained back it's dimensionality and musicality while retaining better detail and deeper, relatively well controlled bass. Maybe a wee bit rolled off in the high, but I'm not entirely sure, and very slightly less lush in the mid.

These Ibis are extremely nice cables. Fast, controlled, musical, come to mind. A lot of PRAT. They have about 100 hours on them in a garage system so probably not fully broken in yet.

Next up I will try swapping-in the Audience cables, and I have a set of Satori Shotgun coming next week to compare also.

So overall I'd say my experiment of mix and match high/low didn't work out too well, now hearing what one set sounds like jumpered.