I’m a card- carrying CARDAS CLEAR fan with my “A” 2-channel. system, and I was an ex-NORDOST FREY user in my prior 2-channel system,
The CARDAS are all-Cu build, whereas the NORDOST are Ag-over-Cu materials, that predicates an accentuated brightness with the Ag component.
I also have a full 7,2 MARTIN LOGAN home theatre system that meshes very well with VAN DEN HUL speaker cables, that tame the ML’s own bespoke “bright” sonic signature. Your upstream electronics choice are also a very large influence in the audio performance with ML. It’s when I upgraded the HT to YBA power discrete amps, is when the VDH audio performance was maximized .