Looking for really fine cables at really low price

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

to expand a bit on Charles' point and to relate my point of view - My system -300b tubes 6C6 driver tubes, Audio Note Transformers and Audio Note Speakers is all about rich tonal musicality. This amp is a classic Western Electric 91a which is a tonal, musical, gets-the-pacing-right beast. I have also learned over the past few months that it is also pretty highly resolving. I have as well learned that I can have much of that resolution without hurting the emotional musicality we all love. I plan on accepting nothing less. Classical music presents its own set of challenges which to my ears in order to get it right needs a good bit of resolution. My challenge is to find the interconnect that gets all of these elements in the right balance.

I am on the cable journey like all of you but am not yet able to draw any firm conclusions as to which interconnect I can live with. I continue down my road of discovery.

Gannyring, In my experience 30 hours is very short time for the WE16ga interconnects. I hope your journey is smoother than mine.

Following the lead of Jetrexpro, I too am not ready to make any final judgments on the WE or Belden wires. And I agree that a final judgment on these cables must take into account not only one's position in the "neutral/accurate" vs. "rich/musical/PRAT" debate but also the other gear used with the cables. In my case, my high efficiency vintage speakers are already warm, rich and dynamic; they are very smooth (no horn shout) but the top end is slightly soft and tapers off in the extreme highs. If I use other gear with the same characteristics, the colorations become too extreme. At the same time, I don't want my cables (or amplifiers or any other gear) to interfere with or detract from any of the special qualities the speakers have in the first place. So cable selection is a bit of a tightrope walk.

Jet, Yeah me too! I did shield mine and thus far I love them. We will see what the future holds. I also used Switchcraft connectors. These little things do make a difference. I know connectors sound different and do impact the overall sound of a cable. I would rather just do away with all the RCA connectors/jacks and solder the IC directly to both components. Well we know that is not practical.

Maxima95 makes a great point. No connectors are best and they way I experience the WE wire. Not everyone can use bare wire however.

Well, that's what makes the world go round. I'm going to pop open a nice bottle of wine and listen to my rich and musical rig. Now that I have my tinned copper star I'm going to Marshall my posse for some down-home good music, my brother has arrived with his soldering iron and mutual audiophile friends for a good old-fashioned Sunday shoot-out. We will start to brand tomorrow some Arizona Green Cactus. Today we will all have a resolute good time with tone, warmth, PRAt, texture, emotion, real musicality at any volume I like. I might get up, dance around and "kick out the jams." Today feels like a Rock n' Roll day. Best, Rob