What most important in the sound of your cables?

..that it has no sound

A cable must and formost attribute a realality of being live, if the sound stage is like alot of cables out there to be upfront in your face, instead of the middle of the room, It does not sound real, I have been to and been part of many live shows on stage, litterally two foot from the mains at a show, never has the sound been forward!, that is not real, but a flaw within most cables, getting the tone is of course a must and given, however, The presataion and everything else set within differentation to give a holographic image of reality is 90% short commings of most cables but a few world class select few!

@stringreen@rja@tubegroover. I found high fidelity ct1. I have been very happy with the high fidelity ultimate reference cable that they have. Open,natural and transparent .

Clarity.
I just upgraded the wires in my interconnects from my source to volume control.
As impressed as I was by upgrading the RCA to Furutech 102R, upgrading to their Alpha OCC wires has really done the trick.
The improvement in detail is very enjoyable.
The sound has been cleaned up of a guaze like film that was attached to the instruments.I never really noticed how much was there until I got rid of some more of it.
So, now I've ordered about 16 mtrs for the long runs to the amps.
Hopefully the increase in clarity will continue.

All cables have some kind of sound or sonic signature,no getting around that.

The hard part is that we get accustomed to the sound we get from our current cables and accept that sound as great, good enough or classify it as being mellow and soft.
Until you get to listen to a system that gets closer to the truth,in other words,when you hear a system that is less coloured than your own,you never really know how much music you can be missing when the cables you accept as musical are really just veiling the sound.

My advice is to try as many different cables as you can,but first, seek out a really great system that tells it like it is, and then try to get your system to deliver as much of that sound for what you can afford in cables.
Or, for $500.00 you can DIY a pretty decent 1 mtr pair of IC,that will compete with some cables costing twice as much or more.

calvinj, Hi, Do you remember the name of the cables-The Brand,, that that guy had that had the Raidho speakers? you said that the cables was from a designer that left nordost and started his own company?

"getting the tone is of course a must and given, however, The presataion and everything else set within differentation to give a holographic image of reality is 90% short commings of most cables but a few world class select few!"

Agreed except that the importance of correct timbre and tonality is precisely where most systems I hear are not accurate and there seems less interest in this to some listeners. I suppose the reason why is many feel this an area where there is less of an issue. What I hear at live performances that is strikingly different than most audio systems is the tone/timbre and pitch of instruments. The best cabling will reveal how true this is in a well sorted high performance system. Soundstaging and imaging will fall in place to the extent the rest of the system is capable of resolving what's on the recording with the best cables and therefore IMHO shouldn't be the emphasis but seems like it generally is in these discussions.

@ audiolabryinth. I can't remember the brand google former nordost designer cables.

Clear and natural like the high fidelity ultimate reference is working for me now. With a great amount of prat.

Got to be able to understand what is being sung even when vocals are not prominent or buried in the mix. That's a good sign for the midrange, where most music occurs, and perhaps the single best indicator overall. Usually a good omen for all the rest as well.