Need Ideas on speaker cables

I'm very happy with World's Best Cables Ultimate Assembly, 7AWG that cost $220 (10' length).  I'm running them on Focal Sopra No. 2 speakers and they sound great.  Probably the best value out there and they look fantastic!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLYK9DF1?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Duelund DCA12GA won the shoot-out for me years ago.. So affordable, I'd say give it a try on the monos / short run. This cable is so good, super musical, flat yet nostalgic in the mids. I got tired of the giant garden hose $5k variant - hyped presentation.. Best of luck!

SilverSmith Fidelium foil cables. Better than the Siltech, Nordost and Skogrand I had used. A steal at about $1,200 for an 8-foot length. Read the Supercables Cookbook to see the case for electromagnetic waves moving along the surface of a foil cable. There's a great YouTube video evaluating these cables, beating cables that cost 5-figures.

Save your money and buy some sturdy lampcord from a hardware store, double it up to ensure good current flow, and then take yourself out for a steak dinner to congratulate yourself for not believing all of the hype of the cable industrial complex!

@tonyrox and @connollymj beat me to it -- take a look at WBC (World’s Best Cables) on Amazon. I bought a few of their low-capacitance phono interconnects as a reasonably price stop-gap and now months later they are still in the system with no desire to pay multiples of their price for something "better". WBC have an attractive line of speaker cables with your choice of terminations in a variety of lengths and effective gauges.

For years I bought into the idea that expensive cables, including speaker cables performed better than cheaper alternatives.

My experience with a vintage McIntosh MC225 amplifier has made me completely rethink this mindset. The almost 60 year old amp has old-school terminal or barrier strip screw speaker connections. In my excitement to hear the amp when I first received it I didn’t want to wait for adapters of some kind so I could use my expensive speaker cables. So I used some decent but hardly expensive OFC #10 gauge speaker wire from Parts-Express left over from an AV system project. Guess what? The amp and the #10 gauge sound lovely and just like the WBC interconnect, are still in place. The expensive speaker cables? Up for sale.