After you've done a lot of testing neutral becomes obvious, if that's really your goal. It's not everyone's goal, that's for sure, and that's ok... But it is MY goal and that's how I build my cables. If you like other than that there may be other cables more suitable but for neutral and resolving it'll be very difficult to beat my cables at any price.
I did NOT say a neutral cable will not change the sound of your system though, it probably will because it's not so likely the cable it's replacing is neutral. What you can expect though is far more resolution, clarity and dynamics along with correct, realistic timbre of instruments and vocals.
I would agree that more neutral cables, a clearer, better source, etc... all can unmask deficiencies in your system, but imo that is a good thing because by finding and eliminating deficiencies our system gets better and that's the entire point of upgrading, at least to me. I realize other people have other priorities and in that case there are probably better products than mine, but the one thing I'd say is that's really not the pursuit of high fidelity, it's the pursuit of whatever kind of sound floats your boat.
At a certain level a system is capable of reproducing the acoustics of the recording venue as well as fine detail of voices and acoustic instruments. If the room acoustics cooperate the soundstage will take on the dimensions and environment of the venue and not your listening room. The boundaries of your listening room will audibly disappear along with the position of your speakers, with a recording that has this information of course. To achieve this takes a very resolving system and very good interconnect cables, also clean AC power. Most people have never experienced a system capable of this but once you have you realize the value of a neutral and resolving system and the results are generally better than most people imagine a 2-channel system could ever be. At this point they generally ditch whatever ideas they have about how they wanted the system to sound and now are committed to the actual pursuit of high fidelity. You can get there with Omega speakers in a good acoustic environment but most electronics and cables will not perform at a high enough level to achieve this, which is why you need to spend a lot on your electronics and cables to realize the potential of Omega speakers. It's fine to set them up with less expensive gear and it's a great way to start, you just won't hear what the speakers are really capable of.
Finally, I'd highly recommend people find other ways of adjusting their system's sound than using cables as tone controls. They are bad tone controls and lose a lot of information that contributes to the ultimate believablility of your system and connection with the music, which is what we're after. For me, high quality tube amplification is the way to go, either preamp, amp or both, it is possible to find or build high quality tube gear that is very detailed and resolving and also has some amount of warmth, body and dimensionality.
