Let's talk about Silver...

@ghdprentice I can verify that less expensive silver cables are generally not great. I have a box full of cables that I bought for $100 to $200 hoping to get lucky.  I'm not using any of them.  The Apature cables are actually pretty decent, though.

I opened my wallet and bought the Black Cat Silverstar 88 cables and they're excellent.

I just purchased a used XLR cable to try out between my dac and preamp. It took about 5 minutes to decide that it's going in the box. 

The Graham Slee CuSat50 is one of the few less expensive cables that really impressed me ($175 used). It's all copper. It's unfortunate that they don't appear to be available in the States for people to try.  I ordered a second pair on ebay from a UK seller. 

I've tried a bunch of copper, silver plated copper, and all silver cables.  Cables by DH Labs, Morrow, Harmonic Technology, Synergistic Research, XLO, Core Power Technologies, Apature (silver), Silver Audio, White Zombie, etc.

I generally favor the pure silver cables.  I landed on Black Cat Silverstar 88 silver cables for preamp to amp and dac to preamp. I also recently discover Graham Slee CuSat50 cables which are all copper.  Using it between my sacd player and preamp.  I like it so much that I ordered another pair from the UK to try between my phono preamp and preamp. 

@lak Analogue Seduction on eBay. They didn’t have the length that I needed listed (1.5M), so I messaged them and they sent me a link. It’s in St Louis now en route to Kansas City.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233845761317?ViewItem=&item=233845761317