interconnect suggestions

Thanks everyone for your input. It’s been very helpful. I feel like this is the most difficult area of this hobby to find value, i.e. price to performance ratio.

You’re not kidding! The best-sounding cables I’ve tried have been among the cheapest, models by BJC or Mogami or fabricated to order with Mogami cable and Neutrik connectors.

In my most recent experiment, a pair of well-known boutique cables, MSRP $2200, sounded notably colored by comparison to Mogami W2549 with Neutrik XLRs.

Try these first as they’re very affordable and hear for yourself for little money if cables make a difference or not. I think they’ll be more open and disappear a little better than the Belden. If you don’t like you’ll only be out $40 and you can give them to a friend still using stock cables. Give them some time to settle in before making a quick evaluation.
If you like the Canare IC’s, they make wonderful speaker cable too.

https://www.amazon.com/Foot-RCA-Cable-Pair-Interconnect/dp/B01I34662U/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&ke...

Raven Audio's Soniquist XLRs at $170/meter can't be beat.

The belief espoused by some that there is a large enough difference in cables to warrant spending many hundreds to thousands of dollars is purely psychological. If you BELIEVE you hear a difference you will. However, a good signal going through pure copper with proper shielding is all the magic there is. Simply put, there is a difference but only with regard to poorly made vs. properly, and properly made can be had for less than $200. Comparisons to audio equipment is a false equivalence. An amplifier for instance is made from many components and much more complex, therefore an increase in cost has a provable effect. A basic conductor, as stated has bounded limits due to its relative simplicity.

Ever wonder why people argue about cables but not physics, math, and engineering principles? Hint, one is 'subjective' and the other is established science. Remember the old saying, a fool and his money are soon parted.

Clearly never studied physics, math, or engineering any more than audio. Or psychology. Or electronics.
A basic conductor, as stated has bounded limits due to its relative simplicity. Clearly have no idea what a capacitor is, or how its made. Transformer, ditto.