If you believe Malcoml Omar Hawksford, whose "Essex Echo" article was reprinted in Stereophile within the past couple of years, you'll believe that Kimber, Tara and most other "name brand" makers pay no real attention to "skin effect", and if you've listened only to cables like theirs, you won't know what a coherent cable sounds like. Cardas is better in this respect, but his use of three different gauges hurts his cables, IMHO, since two will be simply too thick. The only cable I know that gets this right, beside expensive Audio Note, is the very affordable Stealth, which come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. It would hurt me to think of your spending big money on Discovery, Tara, Kimber, or the like, before at least giving Stealth a try. Another point: will good bass do you much good if other aspects are poor?
