It depends on what the rest of your system is and what you want to accomplish. If your interconnects are all Audioquest, then stick to Audioquest speaker cables. It is vital that you do not mix manufacturers - unless of course you like playing around with tone controls. Cable manufacturers play with a whole variety of factors to voice their cables as a total cable system. If you mix and match then the chances of success are very low. Secondly you should make sure the interconnects and speaker cables are from roughly the same level - ie. mix Dragons with Diamonds or Lapis. Personally, although Audioquest obviously makes good cables, I believe better bargains can be found elsewhere - no doubt a function of Audioquest having to cover its high promotion and advertising cost. For my money - I want cables that do not impose any sound on the equipment. That may sound like an unattainable ideal, but after trying and living with many different cables I came across the Wireworld range and.. I use the Wireworld Eclipse cables and find them utterly neutral, natural and even-handed. The whole philosophy of Wireworld is to make cables that are soundless - illustrated by their marketing of an interconnect comparator which allows you to hear the difference between any interconnect and "no interconnect". So my first instinct is to recommend Wireworld to you. One final note - I have never regretted over-spending on speaker cable - it just seems to be a link that does not suffer from diminishing returns until your cables cost nearly half the price of your speakers (not that I recommend this)!
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