Cables, Cables

keep the home depot wire

What kind of interconnects do you have between your cd player and integrated?

Monster Interlink cables... Nothing fancy :P

Moganes, in this situation, replacing the speaker cable is not the first thing you need to do.

I am suggesting you follow this plan if you want to effectively upgrade your cables(and it's completely up to you what to do with the $1400 speaker cable now), but:

First of all, you need to upgrade the Monster Interlink interconnects. This change(the interconnect upgrade), is the one that's going to reward you with most improvement. This is the first and the most important link in your system - cables between your CD player and your integrated. If you return the Nordost sp cable, you can get decent interconnects used here on a-gon for under $300/m with the money you get back for the sp cables.

I am a fan of Acoustic Zen interconnect cables and speaker wires, so my suggestion is a pair of Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference MkII interconnects.

Second is the speaker cable upgrade, since you have no separate amp and preamp.

Last but not least is the power cord upgrade. The one I found works really good on both digital and analog components is Audience powerChord.

Remember though that the speaker cable will only carry the information from your integrated amp to the speakers. The amount and quality of information that gets TO your integrated from your cd player is the most important.
Then all the rest will follow - speaker cables, power conditioners, power cords.
Best of luck.

Thank you. I will try this and report back. :)