probably the ones you feel are the best...for whatever the reasoning. It's your money, spend it any way you want. There is alot of posting about cables here and some cables are better than others. Some are so overpriced that only a fool would buy them. Unless I am dead wrong, all a cable should do is to interconnect from amplifiers to speakers, or cd/dvd players, etc. They should do this without adding any noise or hum or clipping or adding distortion. Coloration of the audible audio spectrum should be at a minimium. They should be sturdy. At best you want a clean signal transfer between components and speakers.

The human ear, connected to the human brain is a funny thing and we each have our own. And that is really the test, although some do have better hearing than others and may detect flaws which others may not. Hearing is somewhat a subjective thing. Years ago I worked on a some sessions with Stevie Wonder in a very high end recording studio. The guy had great hearing and was really a talent and a pleasure to work with. On playback of one of the cuts he said there was distortion and clipping on one of the instrument tracks. And he wanted it fixed. Absolutely no one else in the room could hear it. We called in one of the engineer techs and he methodically went to work. It took about 15 minutes of checking and measurements and he found a card which was off by a very small amount and he replaced it and we all went back to work. Later, the tech told me he was amazed that Stevie could hear that tiny amount of distortion, it should be inaudible. Maybe some of you have acute hearing too.

The home cable world? Alot of it is all marketing, like Monster and many other cables. This is a new revenue stream to be exploited. Jewelry for your set-up. Expensive jewelry too. Its your money--I don't care. Been in plenty of recording studios and the cableing is good quality "working man's" cable. $20 or $50 a foot....no way.

I bet if you call any quality recording studio and get a hold of a tech who talks, you will find they don't use jewelry. Unless the client requests it...and pays for it. None of this consumer home audio sucker crap. They use good high quality cable and interconnects, most of which is made in-house.

Anyway, all this cable stuff is just plain silly. You have been marketed to death by the audio industry and the salesmen who are making money off your vanity cables. And you believe it all, some of you. Like a car dealership....its a nice add-on...to the bill. You pay high for it and you will convince youself...it was worth it.

A cable should just do its job of sending a clean unadultrated signal. If you want jewelry you will pay for it. Pretty simple.