Speaker Cable Recommendations

True you need to audition first but it doesn’t hurt to get an opinion from actual users unless you live in a large city with great dealers willing to let you drag home a ton of cables and what chance they have many on the floor in your price range? You can try many online stores that offer returns and The Cable Company and put down deposits and maybe after a few months or more you find the right cable. That’s the nice thing about buying used... if you don’t like you’ll unlikely lose much if any.

I've had recent experience with two of the companies that you mentioned.

When I bought my Acoustic Zen "Hologram" speaker cables I miscalculated the length that I needed, so the spades had a tendency to pop off at the connection to the amplifier. So, I decided to try a pair of used Kubala Sosna cables and I did not like them as much as the Acoustic Zen cables. Fortunately, the vendor provided a trial period to check them out, so I was able to return them.

Ultimately I ended up ordering a new pair of the Acoustic Zen "Holograms" that were 2 feet longer and had banana plugs instead of spades.  I appreciate the Acoustic Zen's more now after finding out how much I really liked them after testing them against another product. 

+1 on triode wire labs. I had  their speakers cables and in my system there were better than Wireworld silver eclipse 8.
Pete is very honest anD great to deal with. Eventually I changed to Audience front row that cost 5 times more but really elevated my system to another level. After that I consider cables as a component.