Speaker cables and interconnects - help!

I've been an audiophile for over 40 years, and I think I must have died and gone to heaven since I recently replaced my name-rand interconnect and speaker cables with STEALTH. I strongly urge you to contact stnemo@starpower.net, their designer, for a recommendation for your particular system. He'll tell you to make the speaker cables as short and thick as you can. I've recently done that and it helped the sound a lot. You could look at www.interlinkhouse.com at various models, but direct contact with the designer would be best.

I, too, am a long-time audiophile, and I have been using Kimber Kable products for many years. My personal opinion, after a lot of listening, is that speaker cables and interconnects are less critical in a home theater system than in a strictly 2-channel audio setup which you use solely to listen to music. I'm sure that other readers may disagree, but I believe that the visual factor in home theater, plus the 5.1 surround sound, involves us on a very different level than listening to music alone. Hence, I suggest that you consider Kimber 8TC for your front speakers (l,c,r), and Kimber 4TC for the rear surrounds. Kimber also makes several excellent interconnects at moderate prices: the Hero, and the Silver Streak. As a final option on interconnects, there is a new company called "Home Grown Audio" that is offering assembled and kit forms of an all-silver interconnect that is excellent. I recently purchased two of their all-silver interconnect kits for $40 each, and the parts quality is superb. The sound quality with these interconnects is as good as I've heard in my system. You can check out their products at: www.homegrownaudio.com

Use good stuff up front dont spend more than 1.50/2.00 a foot on your rears.

I'd like to echo the comments of Sdcampbell -- I've got a pair of the Kimber Monocle XL's (which I love) but they retail for $1,100 or so, and that it more than anyone needs to spend on cables (and a lot more than I did, luckily). The homegrown audio Silver Solution kits are, in nearly all respects, the equivalent of Kimber's KGAC interconnect ($440 for a meter) for the price of $40 for a kit. I built four of them last night (admitedly, a pain in the ass--took me four hours) but really can't say enough about them. Look around, consider the options, but include these guys in your considerations. They deserve quite bit of credit.

I live in Syracuse, NY...not a lot of high end here. I too have to rely on feedback from others. Earlier this year a well known speaker designer recommended DH Lab's new Q-10. NO TIZZ! Very pleased with this cable for under $300 for 10' bi-wired. Great sounding cable!