Well, I'll chime in on this. I'm not sure I can really put my finger on what is most important in cables for me. I guess it would be a general sense of instruments and voices sounding and impressing me more like what I've heard live.
Over the years, I've used a variety of speaker cables, including Goertz Alpha Core MI-2, anti-cables, Morrow SP-2, and some others I don't remember any more.
Now, based on some posts here from an avid proponent of Audioquest cables as being "3-dimensional", I did just receive a new set of speaker cables(Audioquest CV-8). I replaced a set of Goertz MI-2 with the Audioquest last week.
Actually, I've been aware of Audioquest and their DBS system for decades now, but I guess I always dismissed such cable "aids" as gimmicks.
Well, consider me blown over, but the CV-8 cables produced an immediate and unmistakeable improvement over the MI-2. Before and after replacing the cables, I played a demo CD I got from Legacy Audio at the audio show in Austin, TX last spring. On one particular track, there is a guitar being strummed on the left channel, and with the CV-8 the sound of the guitar seems more "placed" in terms of depth from the listener, seems "prettier" sounding, and, most significantly to me, seems to "bloom" as it is strummed harder. I've never really known what audiophiles meant when they used the term "bloom", but I think I now understand a bit. Everything seems more in place and coherent with the CV-8.
Now, I don't know whether this subjective improvement in sound stems from the CV-8 being more "accurate" than the MI-2, or perhaps from some euphonic effect. Either way, I find the sound significantly better to my ears, and that is all that really matters to me.
