Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range

i have complete nite setup,speaker cables are biwired.vandy 2ce .cary 306/200,ar 16l pre,and 2 evo200.2.these cables sing and rick schultz is very honest and knowledgeable.you will not go wrong
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I tried out two of the cables on your list from The Cable Company's lending service (and 6 more besides). Ended up prefering an Acoustic Zen Hologram II to anything I had heard (as a bonus it was under $1000).
What I liked on my system is meaningless, but what might be of use is for me to reccomend that you get hooked up with a local dealer who will let you do in home try outs or else give the cable company a shot. Else, you can find a used cable cheaper but it is a shot in the dark and a good buy on a 2500 list cable might still cost more than finding out that a 500 list cable is what works in your system best.

Speaker cabling really, really, really is a system synergy thing. The Audience cabling might work best in one system, the Nordost Valhalla in another, and Purist in yet another. And so on.

What amps and speakers do you have, Bumbateam6?

What qualities are you trying to maximize in your system?

Audiokinesis is exactly right. But that's also a no-brainer and hopefully goes without saying because system synergy is involved in every other aspect of audio as well i.e. room acoustics, ics, pre-amps, amps, cdps, tts, speakers, line-conditioners, etc..

But there still needs to be a starting point in which to begin one's quest in the attempt to obtain a product of a certain quality. If for no other reason than to hopefully save much time and money while also aquiring the best possible sonics.

-IMO

Here's part of a post Robert Schult wrote in Audiocirle. I find it very appropriate for this thread:

Based on my experience with a myriad of gear and systems and considering all that, I'm not convinced that cabling, or any other single component is "system dependant". I'm coming to the conclusion that that's realistically a "wrong" way to view putting a system together and only facilitates buying different gear every other day searching for the "Holy Grail" while blaming the equipment for not meeting our undefined system goals. With competent engineering and a keen ear to discern between "Hi-Fi" and the convincing allusion of "Real", a good amp is a good amp, a good cartridge is a good cartridge, a good loud speaker is a good loud speaker and a good cable is a...dare I say, a good cable. There's a whole line of valid thinking behind this but I'll save that for another post or, maybe you have some thoughts of your own along this line.

Right now my toast is burning...later!

I don't believe in "system synergy" either...
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Robert