👍 I agree, you have to start somewhere and this is a very good place to start. I think Transparent have been in my life for 35 years. I bought my first set of Transparent speaker cables about 35 years ago… they sounded terrible. Not because they were terrible but because my largely solid state system with planar speakers was too revealing… very solid state sounding. When I pulled them out of the closet 20 years later and put them in my incredibly better system… they were simply stunning. I realized from the beginning they were fantastic cables… it was just that my system was not. I quickly upgraded my Transparent to contemporary… wow, what an improvement.