Purist Audio Speaker cable question

You must listen for yourself to see how they react with your system. In mine they are quite good, but have a back of the auditiorium perspective. ...that is, rolled highs, but lots of depth and air around the instruments. As you go up the line you get more resolution and finess. In spite of their openness, they have a kind of clossed in kind of dark sound on my system

I have an all Purist Venustas system right down to the tonearm cable, except for a couple of killer Purist Dominus power cords, and I love how everything sounds. Pricewise, Venustas has always been, and still is, the best value in the entire line; but they can be bettered if you can afford to spend more.

Purist cables are famous for their low noise floor or quiet back ground, how ever you want to say it. Personally, I think this is due primarily to the mechanical damping provided by their thick Ferox-paste-filled jackets and somewhat additionally to very sophisticated grounding conductor layout. And they also seem to create a more-than-the-sum-of-the-parts system synergy between themselves as you replace each leg of cabling with Purist.

I don't get the same sonic results as Stringreen, but I'm sure it's because our two systems are so different in their makeup. And I could comment further if I knew what equipment you had. So why don't you take a few moments and post your system? (pictures are nice, but not mandatory as far as I'm concerned ;--)

Best value is a matter of perspective. Many think that Proteus is the best value. Venustas and Corvus have Ferox and Proteus has traditional fluid. Also, Corvus and Proteus are single crystal and Venustas is not.
A lot will depend on your system and your taste.
Some people combine Ferox and fluid Purist cables.
Personally, I will take Proteus any day both for SS and tube amplification.

The Proteus cables are Purists only (I think) solid core conductor cables; and for ease of management, the speaker cable comes in two separate runs (+ and --) per cable like the Virtual Dynamics cables.

There are certain considerations when choosing speaker cable (i.e. making a short list) that are speaker-dependent. For instance, the solid core Proteus has the lowest capacitance of any of the Purist line (due to the solid core and the separated runs) making it ideal for driving electrostats. Around 14 ppf/ft compared with, say, almost all the Cardas (multistranded) cables which average around 300 - 400 ppf/ft! Which is why Cardas speaker cable (or any speaker cable with over 25ppf/ft) will degrade electrostat performance.

My Venustas (driving my ML CLS's) are almost as low capacitance (around 20ppf) as the Proteus, but because this issue is so important for stats, I A-B'd the Venustas with a demo pair of Proteus from Albert Porter, and (I (think!) the Proteus had the edge, but not enough to open my wallet that time ;--)

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Corvus is a relatively new cable in Purist line. I haven't heard it or read much about it. So, who knows, maybe it is the best value for most systems? I just like their fluid cables for that incredible midrange and soundstage depth. Never tried their Contego cables which is a kind of mixture of fluid and Ferox. Some say the Canorus top of the line cable is beyond belief.