Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality?

I think I'm gonna make some exotic cables that have custom fuses in them.

Just because.

You’re ruining my fun. ;) I’m taunting. Very gently taunting and making a joke, kinda thing.

We make uber expensive cables. Low prices ones as well. Both with the same exotic technology that has no widespread accepted mathematical analogy, as of yet. It will come, obviously, but it’s not here yet. (supercomputers are the starting point to map this stuff but first you need the model.... you can get a top notch multidisciplinary physicist, sit them down and then explain the complexities of the scenario and then watch them reel as they try to grok the complexity of attempting to map it)

We’d love to make an inexpensive speaker cable with this technology but it simply can’t be done.

As for the batteries, etc, that is valid. I’ve no desire to explain the scientific reasoning behind someone eles’s product. Whether one likes what it does or not, is up to the buyer to listen and decide.

I’d like to say though, I’ve never heard one of these ’powered’ cables. When the description came along as to the construction of them, I immediately saw the SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY of what was going on.

All designers of cables were originally DIY. No exceptions.

If you don't hear the difference, save your money.

However, sooner or later, most audio people will hear a difference, and marvel at it.

The trick is to apply the right form of reason to what is heard. That is a multifaceted task of enormous complexity that can take decades to unravel.

No shiny red button quick fixes where ignorance can throw money at it and make it better. That's where the ignorance and bull combines to make a mess out of things. Just like it does in all areas of business.