Entire system cable recommendation

Dude, your price range is way too high. My advice: Try USED Synergistic Research, or even cheaper, Grover Huffman. Spend the rest on music.

I did test many brands of cables in my life. Also small companies. Often they were ok till good. But never extremely good. They do not have the money for research and knowledge some bigger companies have. Purist Audio is one of the exceptions of a smaller brand which is capable of making stunning cables.

Bo1972
Agree on purist, but in order to get to the stunning results with purist you have to get into at least proteus provectus model range. This is were magic starts. But this is very pricey even with good dealer discounts, they cost a lot, not accessable for many. So, what is your recommendation fo the cable brand (speaker, ICs power cords) within more affordable price range, lets say ($3000-$4000 for the whole loom). This is were some small ( basically one man operations) may be a better choice.

Audioquest is great in loudspeakercables, interconnects and hdmi cables ( usb etc) and subcables There powercables are ok, but not good enough for me. Kimber PK-14 is a great affordable powercable. To have every cable of the same brand doesn't say anything. I am Always only interested in the best endresults, that is all that counts. Audioquest is one of the few brands who have all properties in one cable. Normaly you need at least 2 brands to get all the parts in your system.

- a deep and fast low freq. respons
- a very sharp indivual focus of all instruments and voices. ( instruments and voices have the right ( very small) proportion as in real)
- a deep and wide stage.
- a very open and musical mid freq.
- open high freq. without harshness.
- very good blacks to get a touchable image of all the instruments and voices.

Wen you buy Audioquest with DBS 72v you get a much better timing and blacks compared to competitors.

In my system, the Found-Music cabling has been a significant upgrade: http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?10639-Found-Music-Cabling-A-System-wide-Upgrade

The ability to home audition is a nice feature.