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Instead of asking other people to provide facts, why don't you build some, run the tests ("triple blind"??) yourself, and report back
Entry level Morrow interconnects were one of them that flunked out for me (lacked high frequencies). And that was with 59 year old ears!
I will just address speaker cables. A few months, the local audio club had a guy in town to demonstrate Iconoclast speaker cables. It was done as an A-B comparison with Mogami speaker cables. The associated equipment was top of the line. Revel speakers. The Iconoclast speaker cables did sound better. They were expensive cables. It is something of a mystery why it should make a difference because there were plenty of inductors in the signal path, and the signal must pass through all of that wire. I had no intention of paying the price for the Iconoclast cables. I have my own experience with speaker cables over the years. I read that a telephone cable could work well. Until recently, I have been using Cat 6 telephone cable, and I had been satisfied with that. After the show, I decided to try an experiment. I prepared some cables using the Cat 6 wire. I also bought some Cat 8 ethernet cable on Amazon. That was 50 feet for about $25. I cut the Cat 8 into 4 equal lengths. The way I do all of these cables is to strip the insulation and twist all of the small wires together in a bundle. That gives a fairly fat wire. I estimate that the Cat 6 telephone cable comes out to about 12 gauge and the Cat 8 ethernet to about 14 gauge. I contacted my host for the Iconoclast demonstration and asked if I could come over and do a comparison. He agreed. He had the Iconoclast cables. I think that our evaluation was similar. He thought that my Cat 6 cables were about equivalent to the Mogami. The Cat 8 cables played in the same ballpark as the Iconoclast. The sonic signature was a little different. I thought that the Iconoclast had a bit fuller and richer sound and Cat 8 had better rhythm and pace. Some Cat 6 telephone cable is copper-plated aluminum. Don't get that. Get solid copper. I'd just order some Cat 8 ethernet cable from Amazon or wherever and cut it up. You can get 4 12.5 foot cables out of one 50 foot ethernet cable.
Hey this is awesome guys, lots of great information. I'll respond to individual responses as time goes on. But it does seem there is some interest in some blind tests being done on said cables. The problem is, time and money to pull that off. But if there is enough interest, I may take the time and put together something as scientific as I can. But the problem would be budget. It would cost a lot of money and take a lot of time to do a shootout of even a marginally sized shootout unless I can get manufacturers to loan me cables to use as part of said test.
...For speaker wire I buy bulk BJC 10ga wire from BJC's and buy their spades and locking banana plugs and terminate them myself...
