Best Sounding Speaker Cables?

Ghdprentice, you "(SCANNED) the article"? Ordinarily, I'd say try reading EVERYTHING and reading it THOROUGHLY and for comprehension before proffering an opinion. Then again, your mind is obviously too closed for that, made up and already knows everything on this subject.

"If you want to do a review... then you need to become familiar with the lay of the land of people that can tell, language and values as they apply to music." No respect for Brent Butterworth? Really?

"This is just more justification why the ignorant masses are really smart in their ignorance and values." WOW? Did you get this one from your uncles, Adolf and Benito? Do you have any idea what you sound like?

"The very first high end cable I listened to over 45 years ago...". Look up "Presbycusis". Chances are better than 33% you have it. On the other hand, maybe the master audiophile class is impervious to the normal frailties afflicting the "ignorant masses". Had an audiological evaluation recently?

This will be my last rebuttal to your egocentric prattle on this subject because it detracts from what the original poster (and others) were hoping to learn through this thread. So, go ahead! Get in the last shot! You know you want to. Then, you can go play with yourself and proselytize to "the ignorant masses" another day.

Sad!

"In my opinion, that would be cables which negatively change or affect the sound the least. I’d start with the right geometry foremost. Conductor spacing is paramount to proper LCR. Then you want that geometry held in place without any relatable insulation ... No skin effect. Imagine a cable with the pos and neg conductors floating in space, perfectly equal distant apart. (impossible, but idea) The conductors should have the best silver, mixed with an alloy to allow the silver to shine, (like Mundorf, but without that sheen it has). One without any of the negative possible aspects of some silver. The cable should be damped for vibrations. And the connectors are less known than most popular boutique brands (WBT, Eichmann, etc) , but simply be better by design. Actually they are about the perfect design imo." These would be the perfect cables for me ..."

I pasted that from an email I saved 10 years ago. Written by a great friend. He actually made the cables described above, and figured out those challenges. And I get to use them in my system exclusively! But he is a friend, so it is a perk. I would personally steer clear of most of the big expensive brands. I sold my Valhalla cables when I changed to my friends cables and made enough to seriously upgrade my system. The main thing I was saying, is I like to steer clear of the expensive big cable brands, and that is my suggestion. But I hope you find sonic nirvana with the cables you end up with, and your future audio journey! Cheers

" Erastof, if you are interested in an objective or more science-based approach to this question, check this out:

The Best Speaker Cable | Reviews by Wirecutter (nytimes.com) "
  THIS is exactly right. Monoprice 12g by the 100' spool is all I have used for years. For me it's waste your money or spend your money and 12g Monoprice is all you will ever need. Avoid banana plugs and use fork crimp connectors. Solder if you are concerned about connection quality and no I don't mean fancy silver solder. If you must use banana plugs then rather than use bare wire and tighten down (which always seems to magically work loose here and require checking before I hook up another set of speakers for demo or testing) use crimp fork connectors and once tight these never seem to lost their grip.

@ghdprentice
" Sorry but this is not a valuable source. This is simply a review of a bunch of cheap cables with reference to a couple of electrical characteristics. Of no value to someone serious about high quality sound reproduction. "
This is precisely what gives the word audiophile a bad taste to most. Pretentious dollar slinging denial of superior quality to be had at reasonable prices. To rephrase your comment I might say....
" Sorry but this is not a valuable source. This is simply a review of a bunch of cheap cables with reference to a couple of electrical characteristics. Of no value to someone serious about aspirations of golden ear preten(d)tious high quality sound reproduction.

I propose a descriptive way of referring to these types of people. Like the S after a comment means sarcasm perhaps Audiophile$ would be appropriate for those with the metric of if it did not cost a bunch it can’t possibly sound superior.

 At the end of the day I don't really care how much someone spends for audio. They support businesses with their money. What I find irritating is the presumption of superior knowledge and impeccable taste somehow becomes the domain only of those who feel compelled to spend lots of money to purchase their gear. This stupid attitude seems to grow in direct proportion to the $$ spent in the vast majority of cases. $500 dollar unobtanium infused fuses anyone? If they did not improve sound they could not possibly charge that much now could they. Right?

If speaker cables have a sound, then something is wrong with them.