Cable geometry vs. Cable size - help?
I've been pretty happy with my system, which is an old setup consisting of a Quad 44/405-II, Celestion 300s, and a never Harman Kardon HDCD player, wound together old, old, old Monster XPs that are already green, sticky, and thus probably oxidized. Interconnects are some real old Technica cables that I found lying around. I had my eyes set on the Kimber Timbre and the Kimber 8PR, but before that, I had a look at my dad's system, which makes mine a pretty sorry sight (Threshold 4000 I think, Audio Research Pre-amp, B&W 801s...). I asked him what speaker cables he had hooked up, which were real huge, well insulated looking cables.
They were high-tension power cables. That's right. POWER CABLES. He's a surgeon who managed to get some power cables that connect his cardiac catheterization lab of the hospital to our local power station. So I guess they've gotta be real good cables, cause peoples' lives depend on it in the middle of surgical procedures.
His system sounds dang good. What do you guys think: does the geometry of the Kimber cables outweigh the sheer size and insulation of such power cords? I probably know the answer already. I just want to hear it from someone so I can justify to myself spending so much money on cables when I can get more of those humongous power cables for free.