Speaker cables with good timbre

@audiogabby nice find! Congrats!

@audiogabby Sounds like your journey might be over. Or perhaps you're simply at a resting place...

I was a bit of a skeptic but, through a happy accident, I have learned that everything makes a difference. Whether it is an improvement or a degradation will be system dependent.

I am using Cardas Neutral Reference speaker wires and Jena Labs Symphony interconnects.  They work very well in my system.

Why not use what they employ in professional recording and mixing studios

@audiogabby

If you want to test out cables, the Cable Company has a lending library. I use it just to hear other manufacturer’s designs, or, if Shunyata comes out with a new design, I can listen to it. They do charge for that (I think 5% of the retail price), but it works out because even if I don’t buy the cable, whatever it cost is held for me, and applied to a future purchase.

And recommendations are good, but you should also know what kind of music people listen to. Some cables that sound good on a mainly pop music diet don’t necessarily have all the tonal beauty or micro/macro-dynamics that say, classical or jazz music have in abundance.

Furutech, whom I have just written a comment about in another thread, is a very good cable, but cool-ish. I would not want to listen to brass instruments with Furutech; the leading edge will be great. All the "audiophile" stuff (i.e., soundstaging, imaging) will be there, but a faithful timbre? Not so much as some others. Transparent, Shunyata, Synergistic all have cables with a fuller "color" palette, plus some cables that others have recommended. Cardas cables also lean towards "warmth," but that means (or, at least, it used to mean) that all the instruments would sound wam, even ones that should not be warm (Shunyata, up until the Z-Tron line, had some of the same colorations, extremely evident in the CX line. So did Synergistic circa 2015 or so). Asking recommendations is a bit like asking a vegetarian about the best fish dish and they recommend soy tilapia. (I don't even know if that's a real food, by the way!) Taste is sometimes an unreliable arbiter.

So if you value good timbre, I’d suggest you listen for yourself if you haven’t found a cable since your original post. What some of us extoll will not necessarily please your own ears.