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warmest speaker cables you've heard?

I'm looking for a short length of speaker cables, which i need to be as warm as possible..
Price wise, looking at USD700 and below for 1m length pair.

it'll be placed in between an Apollon stereo 1et400a power amp and a RAAL-requisite SR1a speaker adaptor box.
The SR1a is ruthless and clinical and I am looking to add as much warmth as I can. 

Assume the rest of the gear and interconnects have been decided/cannot be swapped out. So just left with the speaker cables to sort out.

I've been told the following are good candidates:
Kimber 8TC
Tellurium Q Black II
Tellurium Ultra Blue

Anything else I should be looking at?
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twoleftears
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Cardas Golden Cross on used market.
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Cables are components of a system; amps are also components of a system.

Few people would object to describing a certain amp as warm or cool; so why this knee-jerk negative reaction to this kind of enquiry about cables?
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The previous generation of Cardas (that includes Golden Cross, and the other "Golden" models) is generally a little warmer than the current generation, as the prevailing taste was moving in that direction (more "neutral").  The Cardas Golden ICs and SCs are sought after on the used market and still command decent prices--check USAudioMart and ebay.

The Puritan 156 is excellent and the one power "conditioner" (whatever you want to call it) that made a significant and totally positive improvement to the system.  But it didn't make it warmer--to fall back on a hoary cliché, there was overall just more there there.
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