Yes...it is a loaded question that is impossible to answer. There is no “best” for a vast plethora of reasons.
The four main ones include inter alia:
(1) The buzzilion choices out there all have their own bespoke strengths and warts. Without prejudice to the former, your cables choice is entirely system dependent (the alchemy comprised of electronics, speakers, ICs, power cables, and speaker cables all together) in the first part. This also includes the contemporareous issue of speaker cable configuration: shotgunned single cables and matched jumpers as preferred versus bi-wires ..... there is a tsunami of prior posts in all the audio forums that emphasize strongly the “system dependent” theme,
(2) A heavy primary focus on cable price (....high OR low...) is a bona fide recipe for a regrettable poor choice.
(3) There is no one-size fits all solution because your audio system components AND your cables all have their own respective sonic signatures. Without knowing the rest of your system, random forum opinions posted here are nothing but touting blind heavily biased personal faves, and such are no assurance that it will work in your system.
(4) Your listening arena has its own bespoke warts and weaknesses that are further large audio performance challenges. Address those as an integral equal main challenge first because simply throwing money solely into cables as as fix and ignoring this, is a virtual guarantee of a failed experiment.
There is no silver bullet solution ......it requires personal audition because this hobby has conflicting influences that renders it a journey and never a destination ......full stop.
The higher up you go in audio system component build and matched performance capabilities, the more acute the selection tailoring and experimention process becomes. In contrast, low-fi, mid-fi, amd entry level hi-fi systems speaker cables optimization choices are intuitively at the other end of that spectrum.
The four main ones include inter alia:
(1) The buzzilion choices out there all have their own bespoke strengths and warts. Without prejudice to the former, your cables choice is entirely system dependent (the alchemy comprised of electronics, speakers, ICs, power cables, and speaker cables all together) in the first part. This also includes the contemporareous issue of speaker cable configuration: shotgunned single cables and matched jumpers as preferred versus bi-wires ..... there is a tsunami of prior posts in all the audio forums that emphasize strongly the “system dependent” theme,
(2) A heavy primary focus on cable price (....high OR low...) is a bona fide recipe for a regrettable poor choice.
(3) There is no one-size fits all solution because your audio system components AND your cables all have their own respective sonic signatures. Without knowing the rest of your system, random forum opinions posted here are nothing but touting blind heavily biased personal faves, and such are no assurance that it will work in your system.
(4) Your listening arena has its own bespoke warts and weaknesses that are further large audio performance challenges. Address those as an integral equal main challenge first because simply throwing money solely into cables as as fix and ignoring this, is a virtual guarantee of a failed experiment.
There is no silver bullet solution ......it requires personal audition because this hobby has conflicting influences that renders it a journey and never a destination ......full stop.
The higher up you go in audio system component build and matched performance capabilities, the more acute the selection tailoring and experimention process becomes. In contrast, low-fi, mid-fi, amd entry level hi-fi systems speaker cables optimization choices are intuitively at the other end of that spectrum.