Audible differences between speaker cables?

Or not. There are many many card carrying audiophiles, most of them with degrees in electrical engineering or some other technical field, who believe that all competently designed cables sound the same (actually dont sound at all). Some of them are my friends. Unhappily, I find that cables do sound a bit different, but as I often say, I am probably delusional.

If you are new and looking for speaker cables, don't worry about it too much and dont spend a lot of money. I saw one of the mailorder outfits had some Ixos 6003 on sale recently. HCM is selling some discontinued Audioquest GR8. You occasionally see Kimber 4VS on sale used here. If you are really curious, you could go to Radio Shack and buy some 18 gauge solid core hookup wire (not stranded), lightly twist 2 strands together one for "positive" and one for "negative" and use that.

Now to your question specifically, do you want people to tell you how they think an Audioquest cable (neutral) compares to a Kimber cable (brighter maybe except for the aforementioned 4VS) at the same price point? There are so many of them and such a wide range of prices. If you have a price range in mind it would help.

What I want from a wire is that it does nothing but pass along a signal. Sometimes I think cable designers attempt to do something else. But it's probably just my imagination.

Sugarbrie, I have auditioned and rejected cables in my home because I thought they sounded different from other acceptable cables. But I continue to believe that the differences between competently designed cables (and that's most of them) are trivial. Someone just asked me to consider that the great stereo recordings of the 50's
were made with perfectly ordinary wire. Of course, most recording engineers still use ordinary wire. If ordinary wire damages the original signal, just how does expensive hifi wire repair the signal? (paraphrased without attribution because no permission - and for those who do know the source please keep it to yourselves)

Two continuing arguments made by the wire is wire crowd are that (1) speakers are internally wired with ordinary wire and (2) recording engineers use ordinary wire. I just don't know what to say to either argument.