Looking for really fine cables at really low price

Charles,
As always a level-headed, thoughtful post. Like you in my audio journey its not worthwhile to debate what listening objective is right. They are both right. It is personal choice. What is truly remarkable is that the WE16ga to a great degree can satisfy both camps. Best, Rob

Grannyring,
Can't wait to hear it myself. Best, Rob

The TNT review of the Supra Ply 3.4 speaker cables, includes a discussion on the benefits of tinned wire;

The Ply 3.4 makes use of 192 pure tin plated OFC copper strands in a low inductance design. The advantages of low inductance and tin plating can be summarized as follows: low inductance gives a better transient performance while the tin plating minimises the (in)famous skin-effect by acting as a semi-Litz conductor and minimises also the current jumps over oxidized surfaces of individual wires in the conductor, so to say, such a configuration works with the same advantages of solid-core cables. The tin plating is considered better than the silver plating because copper and tin "melt" together without creating a diodic barrier such as between copper and silver. Moreover the tin plating protects the OFC copper from oxidation.

On another topic, are those of you with Supra cables using the screened (aka, shielded) version? TNT liked the sound of the Supras with the shield connected but, as is often the case, I found a whole bunch of comments saying shielding of speaker cables is basically BS.

I use the Supra 3.4W which is a compressed version of the standard 3.4 without the shielding (you can get the standard 3.4 either way). It's inductance is .05 lower than the standard 3.4 but I don't know if it's easily discernible between the two while listening. Looking at it crosscut you'd think, at first, it was copper foil, one run atop the other. It came out in 2014 so there's not much in the way of reviews out there that I could find.

All I know is it sounds very good and is more coherent across the board and betters the Supra 2.5 which I also have.

All the best,
Nonoise

In reading the Positive Feedback article cited above, it appears that the banana plugs in the pictures are Acoustic Revive RBN-1, which are rhodium plated.

Though it looks like the bananas were used on one end only, the 4 bananas cost a good bit more than the wire.

I found that using a connector, even on one end, affected the sound. I used them with no connectors.

https://www.acoustic-revive.com/english/rbn1/rbn1_01.html