Neutral-ish Speaker Cable

Hello @jaybe ,  Congrats on your recent upgrades!  I in fact had Audience AU24SX, full loom, selected after trying several cable brands and models from the Cable Store.  Then my dealer brought over Kubala Sosna Elation speaker cables when he delivered my new speakers.  Wow.  All the resolution and airiness I liked about the AU 24 SX but much more mid and low fullness and dynamics.  More meat on the bone so to speak.  And very natural, not forced at any frequency.  They are about three times as thick as the AU24SX.  Anyway, call me a fan of KS now.  I have upgraded much to Realization, but the value spot is Elation for speaker cables, power cables and interconnects.  Good thing it was easy to sell the Audience cables!  BTW, I did previously audition the Emotion line of PC's in my system and did not choose them.

What’s your budget for interconnects and cables, are you looking new or used, and do you use XLR or RCA?

@soix No problem spending $3-5k on speaker, interconnects $1-1.5k each, but not fixed. Running balanced DAC to pre, pre to amp. RCA possible. Digital system of CD transport, streamer, DDC and external clock with higher end Audioquest coax, Tubulus I2S external clock to DAC. Tubulus BNC clock. Used ok, depending.