Eventually, when enough time is spent with various cables you will notice some preferences in the kind of sound you want. For me, diffuse blurring is a no no. Tilted octaves such as treble boost, heavy bass or missing bass is also doo doo. Eventually it comes down to detail and musicality. Normally this is an either/or proposition, yet this domain is actually filled with some very good cables on the market. Case in point. A long time ago I dug out some old kimber pbj and kcag. Both similar in design yet different in metalurgy and coating, not to mention the price tag. The good value for the money, pbj, has almost everything that the kcag (silver) has but to a lesser extent in the detail department. Both had very good bass capabilities. I would even say that the silver went furhter down with a better controlled register. That eventual eye opener told me that silver is not the tizzy culprit it's portrayed to be. In fact, silver is a necessary component of the cable in order to retrive information that is not detected with the lesser cable. One caveat, silver takes a longer time to burn in for the resultant virtues to shine. Once you pay your dues you should be in for a happy time.
Now, both of those cables have been replaced by better ones in my system once the criteria of 'better' had been met. I look forward towards sharing a more descriptive explanation of my ride with the anti silver ic's in a few weeks.
