Speaker Cable upgrade

I have Dragon now, and it's awesome! My philosophy has to do with the damping factor of your amp. If you have a beefy solid state (Krell FPB, Levinson), you need the biggest gauge silver cables (like Harmonic Technology PRO-8 Signature, or AQ Everest, or Kimber KS-3038...new for $8000). If you have a not so beefy solid state amp, YOU NEED DRAGON. If you have ANY tube amp, I suppose Nordost SPM might get more pitch definition out of it than Dragon would, but Dragon is WAY THE HELL MORE DYNAMIC THAN NORDOST SPM. If you want SPM, FIRST YOU SHOULD look for the Music Metre "Silver" speaker cable from a few years ago. I bet it's very close to SPM with a tube amp (I OWN THE MUSIC METRE, I'm gonna use it inside a couple of my speaker projects.)

When REDKIWI says "it's vital to not mix manufacturers, or you'll just be playing with tone controls", THAT'S HOGWASH. That's just common dealer propoganda to try to keep you from buying a brand they don't carry. I have AT Diamond, and using it with Dragon only exagerrates the weaknesses AND strengths of both. WITH CABLE, YOU'RE ALWAYS PLAYING WITH TONE CONTROLS. IT'S NEVER GOING TO SOUND LIKE "NO CABLE". When it does sound like that, you've found good synergy, but there's no way cables ACTUALLY sound like "no cables at all". Just a silly idea that wrongminded (and technically ignorant) guys fool themselves into thinking. WHY? Because you can NEVER KNOW what "no cable" sounds like, YOU CAN ONLY GUESS. I CAN HEAR GREAT, SO I KNOW THIS IS WHAT ME, AND EVERYBODY ELSE, IS DOING (even though they fool themselves into thinking that there suddenly "isn't a cable in the signal's path"). First, try the MIT 330 Shotgun interconnect, and tell me what you think. Also, Wireworld cables depend on an enamel coating on each strand to "prevent interactions". The enamel itself has negative dielectric effects, and smear the signal in time. Non-stranded designs don't have to deal with this. Cardas does the same thing, but at least they use different sizes, spread according to the "golden section".

Alpha Core's "low impedance" designs are flawed. I've tried them, and they are very smeared and distorted. And the Focal tweeter Wilson uses is no good at all, however much they "rebuild" it.

Redkiwi: Gee, I'm sorry I offended you so much. I can see that you're closed minded on mixing different manufacturers' cables. Twenty years experience or not, I can hear better than you, and am also more open minded about cabling than you. When I try a new cable, it is just ONE VARIABLE I'M INTRODCUING, NOT 13!!! We have different philosophies, and I can respect that, but calling verifiable science "pseudo science" is the ignoramous's way out of a hole he has dug. YES, INDEED I HAVE HEARD THE WIREWORLD CABLES TO BE SMEARED. So what? If you don't hear that, that's your problem!

Fellas, you make just as many blind assumptions about me as you think I make about you. All I am doing is defending my point of view, and it's not angst in the least. Ignore me if you like, but I'm full of insights that you can't possibly imagine...