Best Speaker cables on the cheap?

Try the TDK Super Audio Cable. I cannot hear the difference between it and Audio Magic Spellcaster II. It is $3-3.50 a foot.

PS- I wouldn't hesitate buying used from someone with a good reputaion here. I sold my IXOS at a bargain and they were as good as new. I also am not trying to sell you anything now. This is my hobby, not business.

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I'm more or less in the same boat as the original poster, i.e., trying to eek out some decent sounds for <$100. Has anyone heard of a company called Tribute? They have these pretty looking flat 'silver coated' cables ($4-5 per foot) called "Tribute Silver" -- my local los angeles shop said these were more detailed and fuller than my base reference audioquest 4's ($2-3 per foot)... does anyone know?

Those are probably made by Tributaries. General consensus is that silver plated copper tends to sound somewhat bright and has a tendency towards upper midrange glare / possible sibilance problems. This will probably settle down after pumping some power through them for a while, but don't know how long it will take or how much that would change. Obviously, others might have different points of view on this.

If your dealer really is confident in the cables, ask him if you can take them home on a trial basis and return them if you don't like them. Keep in mind that they WILL settle in a little bit, so play them as much as possible and then give them a listen. Just for comparison sakes, when you think you know how the Tributaries sound, put your old cables back into the system and compare the two. That will give you some type of baseline to refer back to when all is said and done. Sean
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