Cable/Interconnect recommendation for B&W and MF


I posted similar question in AMP section, asking which part should I invest. Everybody said "cables", so here it goes...

B&W CDM 9NT
Musical Fidelity A300 amp & A3 CDP

currently what I have:
radio shack 12 gauge speaker cable (25 feet for each side), about $1 a foot. terminated by myself using monster cable banana plugs
monster cable interconnect. I remember it was about $20.

Which one should change first (speaker cable, or interconnect)? Any recommendations?
silvmoon
Thanks everybody for valuable suggestions.

Distortion, my ultimate sound goal is to have better imaging and sweetness of sound. I know I cannot compare 9NT with Nautilus, but when I compared my system with my friend's Nautilus 805, my system feels like lacking sweetness, or transparency. It feels like something is blocking the sound a little bit.

What I do not care much is bass. I prefer to have better midrange.. I also would like to improve highs, but not as much as midrange.
I am third-Interconnects first;Pure Note is a good choice for your system-neutral and very detailed...
Wow, lots of Pure Note recommendations. I cant argue with that. Pure Note Epsilons sound great. I came very close to buying them for my system.

I certainly dont disagree with any of the previous suggestions. But, I would like to stress that improving ALL your cabling may be your best bet. Especially for the first step. I'll explain. While the Pure Note ICs offer fantastic peformance. If you hear them through stock PCs and inexpensive speaker cables you may not "hear" them. You may be served better by improving all your cabling within your budget and returning later to take each individual cable to the next level (like Pure Note Epsilons).

Its just an idea, but, I wouldnt want you to plunk down $500.00+ on ICs and become disenchanted because you dont get the results you are looking for.

For what its worth, from the description you gave, it sounds like you are on exactly the right path. Not long ago A'gon and its members helped me to choose cabling upgrades on my system. It has never sounded better and for that I am grateful. These guys really know there stuff.
If you like Pure Note, here's a true story:

I gave Lak some twelve feet of 12 ga, silver plated copper Teflon military surplus wire I get for 65 cents/ft (37 strands/conductor). He had it cryo treated for $10/lb and when we compared it in both our systems the military surplus was so close to the $600 Pure Note it wasn't funny.

The "sweetness" and "imaging" that you're looking for will be found with appropriate noise control/power deliver measures and room treatments ( vibration control, too, but I'll keep this out of the picture here to help keep things more basic ) . Clean power has a LOT to do with imaging, as it lets you hear low level spatial information. It's best to start at the source (with a cryo'ed or gold plated power outlet) and then move downstream the audio chain. Room treatments will make your system more neutral and fatigue free while at the same time letting your speakers do their imaging thing without having to fight the room. If you try to use cabling as tone controls and spatial enhancers you'll set yourself up for disaster. Cabling should be, above all, transparent and neutral.