PART-2 its been almost a month since i hooked up the 1m pair,at first i was pretty worried that all that bidding was for nothing but bad sound!!!!! i am using a ODYSSEY HT-3(just stereo 2ch) & 2 pair of fronts,Paradigm 40 and 60's...my first couple of weeks was dedicated to a small assortment of music from 80's hair bands to 2003 grammy winners.......TIN,that is my best discription of what i heard for 3 weeks,but when i got home on the 4th week something changed,metal sound changed over to mello,i was able to crank the music well past it's previous 3wk threshold,so without using a bunch of descriptive words you would hear at a wine and cheese taste off,so far these cables ROCK,soon part 3.....thanks JOHN