Don't trust an addict. That advice may have you ignoring this and other posts though, so you figure it out! Trelja gives you some good advice. Your investment, at this point, would be better spent elsewhere for more significant rewards. Also, though all the factors you list may indeed have an impact on the sonic quality of a speaker cable, more than any active piece of hardware you spend your money on, the price you pay for cable does not necessarily have a direct corrolation to the sonic rewards you get for your dollars. There are great cables to be had for a relatively small investment, and you can spend big $ on cables that may leave you shrugging your shoulders and wishing you hadn't trusted that post you read on A'gon by user 'BigAudioBonehead' that told you of "Jaw-Dropping transformations that will cause you to stay up all night long listening to your entire music collection...blah-ba-de-blah, blah, blah!"
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