Which inexpensive ic's cables worth checking out?

These are pretty good. Here is a slightly dated review.

http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/alphacore_goertz_tq2_mi2.htm

I use Chord interconnects with my Rega cd player and my Unico hybrid secondo integrated amp. They cost 90 dollars.

For grins, I auditioned a Kimber costing many times that. It had been used for 4 months.

Of myself and three other people, none of us could tell the difference.

Heard good thing about the Paul Speltz products. I like how he turns his middle finger outward to the wire charlatans. I have gone into stores to listen to speakers and heard nothing but 90 minute sales pitches for high profit margin wires.

I would think that true blind testing would yield no difference unless you had the hearing of a basset hound.