Welcome to Audiogon, Scott. You've been fortunate to receive responses from several of our most experienced and credible members, IMO.
Given, however, that cable performance tends to be highly system dependent, and that much of the experience cited above was most likely with systems that were very different from your own (and at very different price points), my instinct is to particularly second the comments in the first part of ZD542's post.
What I would suggest is that before investing many hundreds of dollars in a different pair of cables you try to gain a sense of how much difference cables might make with respect to the sonic issue you are trying to address by temporarily trying any cables you can get your hands on cheaply. Perhaps even Home Depot wires.
I suspect that assessing how much and what kind of difference that makes would give you a better feel for the likelihood that a cable upgrade would be an effective way of addressing the sonic issue you described, as opposed to the possibility that the primary contributor to the problem is elsewhere.
Regards,
-- Al
Given, however, that cable performance tends to be highly system dependent, and that much of the experience cited above was most likely with systems that were very different from your own (and at very different price points), my instinct is to particularly second the comments in the first part of ZD542's post.
What I would suggest is that before investing many hundreds of dollars in a different pair of cables you try to gain a sense of how much difference cables might make with respect to the sonic issue you are trying to address by temporarily trying any cables you can get your hands on cheaply. Perhaps even Home Depot wires.
I suspect that assessing how much and what kind of difference that makes would give you a better feel for the likelihood that a cable upgrade would be an effective way of addressing the sonic issue you described, as opposed to the possibility that the primary contributor to the problem is elsewhere.
Regards,
-- Al