I found nordost red dawn spkr and inteconn to be a great match for the magneplanar 1.6 with vt100 and pass labs pre. It's quickness and transparency really let the magneplanar show its strengths (quickness and transparency). It's transparency lets you hear more of the tube amps natural harmonics, and it's emphasized treble helps put forward a tube amps strong midrange. I haven't used many other cables. I tried a mid level tara, and you could hear the relative loss of transparency.
Cardas Neutral Reference vs AQ Caldera
I'm currently using vdH "The Wind" speaker cables and was wondering if the Cardas Neutral Reference or AudioQuest Caldera were worth auditioning. Rest of system: ARC LS16, ARC VT100 MkII, Magnepan, Classe digital. Anyone familiar with any of these high quality speaker cables? I will, of course, ultimately audition before deciding but just curious if others would care to share listening experiences.