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Need help buying new speaker cable

My Tara Labs Apollo speaker cable broke at the negative terminal end.  I will need to replace them.  What cables would you recommend?  I would like to know what cables out there would be comparable.  I would like to upgrade but they need to be affordable. A local dealer recommended Audioquest Robin Hood’s but they cost $2,000.  I just can’t spend that much money.  I am looking at Audioquest Rocket 88’s for $1,150.  Any ideas?  I would also like to know what the sound difference be compared to my Appolo’s?  I still have a difficult time you can hear a sound difference between one cable and another.  
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jjss49
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https://youtu.be/Nx4CAwSLXkY

excellent discussion, a very useful primer for newbs, covers all the important bases

his subjective thoughts mirror my own, as do his recommendations -- imo, imminently sensible, pragmatic, solid advice

btw, my understanding is he is/was a senior hardware engineer at british telecoms concern (in addition to being a long time hifi enthusiast)
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jjss49
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my 2 cents

fix your speaker cable end, and if you want to blow $2 grand more on your gear, best upgrade one of your components instead of buying expensive cable

iirc correctly larry you are somewhat new to all this, you don’t have a system approaching end game quality as yet
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