What do $2500 speaker cables sound like?

Maybe i just use telephone wires.

soooo many brands. Cant be with all of them, my cable love is limited.

To me its all sooo convuluded.

It seems an understanding of how the signal is lessened as it progresses thru a cable.

therefore, to minmize this, it requires great design to overcome complex tech challenges, and this costs money, otherwise we could all use telephone wire. 
So please focus on how the signal is impacted if not treated better via more costly cabling.

Very hard to try out diff cables.

rent a cable path is expensive and u cant really do many at a time. Getting warmed up cables also problematic.

My friends dont really have high end cables and more likely are not into all this audiophile stuf, and i dont want to make this a bonding hobby.

so i, we, rely on reviews, hi end dealers and forums to help guide us. And then we may make a move and buy a cable with eloquent marketing prose, accept the science, and absorb glorius anecdotal comments. And then wait several hundred hours for it to ‘breakin’. And live with it like a new child, we will love it.