Hi Penance and anopax,

Sorry for the delay in responding. I've been offshore for the day so my reply is probably well superceded by now.

To answer your question, albeit unscientifically, at the present moment I'm running 8m of the cheapest Chinese speaker cable I could buy in Vung Tau. When I switch over to the 3m lengths of NACA5 that came with my SBL's, neither I nor any of my musicain  friends who rehearse at my place can hear any difference.

I have a huge array of interconnects ranging from Chinese made, to Audioquest, Kimber, Van den Hul and others - I have not heard Nordost which seems to be well spoken of - but from the collection I have, there are no discernable audible "differences"  let alone "improvements" in the sound. It doesn't seem to matter which way around they are connected.  Yet, to be honest, my dealer who has gifted this selection of cables to me swears he hears differences????

What can I say .... to me, the whole cable/interconnect thing is bulldust and wishful thinking, but my dealer loves experimenting and really gets off on different cables. I guess that's what makes it such a passionate hobby for us all.

Yet oddly, I swear I do hear differences in various stands and tables - especially with turntables. I can't explain that either.