which speaker cables to buy?

Seriously, you'd be hard-pressed to get better-engineered cable with better copper than the AudioQuest closeouts at HCM Audio. I provided the links in my previous post. We're talking $79.95 for an 8-foot pair of multi-gauge (12 ga. aggregate) solid core high purity long grain crystal copper with hand terminations of copper or silver spades or bananas.

Thanks for all the insight into cable/prices. This gives me a good starting point into I would assume ( from reading forums) the beginning of my rollercoaster ride with cables into the near and distant future.
I will start my search with these in mind; Blue jean, Signal Cable, Anti, and Audio Quest.
Thanks
Gary

i too have been looking into budget minded quality cables. i was drawn to the elf, yacco, kimber tc's, and goertz. i used the anti's in a previous system and they were very good. currently i am using all blue jean cables. but, we just put together an entire new room and i had started looking for soemthing a little more aesthetic than the grey jacket of blue jean and the hanging wire of the anti's(silly i know, but WAF allowed the new system, so the cables must also fall in line). it would seem to me, and this is admittedly without listening, that the kimbers used may be the leader in price/performance ratio. they can be had pretty cheap. my advice to you is the blue jeans cable canare. buy the diy banana terminals cuz the bare wire on these can be a bear.

Take a look at the Supra offering - there are a number of choices, They usually advertise on the Gon so easy to find.

I built a set of cables using their Ply 3.4 and then covered them with black Techflex. They look very nice - in fact you basically don't see them at all. They sound good. And because they are flexible they are easy to run and hide.

BTW I finished them with the low cost but very good sounding Audioquest gold over copper bananas that Johnnyb53 mentioned.