Speaker cables - cables make a difference

@lanx0003 , take a look at Pine Tree Audio cables. They have received positive reviews and are on the Most Wanted list for budget cables per Terry London in Stereophile magazine.                                                                                                       @mceljo , thanks for the advise I’ll take a look. FWIW my Morrow was a Digi 2 or 3, I can’t remember. It was an early edition model and they’ve changed. I had issues with my DAC/streamer set at high resolution, as it was grainy. Mike offered me an updated one for almost free , but I opted to go the 65% off to trade up. I went with the Digi 4 but in a balanced configuration. I’m setting up a large tube system to replace my low power single ended SEP tube system. I have level 4 power cords and level 4 single ended interconnects and speaker cables. I’m going to go level 6 speaker cables and level 6 balanced IC’s in the fall. Until then I’m intending to get some budget balanced cables from Pine Tree Audio. I have a pair of Rogue M-180’s and I’m not sure yet if they’ll be in the rack or on the floor so I’m uncertain on length. Cheers , Mike B. 

@richardbrand 

"Have you got any ferrite rings?  I am wondering what difference these might make placed around each end of a power cord."

It's already been done for you. Look inside your amp or preamp and at least one leg of the AC power cord has at least one turn through a ferrite ring or bead before the mains voltage enters the transformer. Feel along the cord that's powering your PC, laptop or whatever device you're typing on at the moment that isn't running on battery and you'll find a ferrite bead molded into the cord. Creates a bump in the impedance and resistance and filters out any RFI or EMI that the length of cord might have picked up. Any cord that is shielded be it twisted, braided, wrapped in foil or metal braid or is coaxial has higher capacitance, lower resistance and inductance. All power cords, ICs or Speaker cables incorporate these in one way or another. Litze, I believe is the most basic form and solid core is rarely used for countless other reasons.

@buellrider97  First, Terry is with Stereo Times, not Stereophile.  Second, take a serious look at the Micca 14. It outperforms my longtime favorites, AudioQuest solid-copper cables and of course Monoprice. While its treble isn’t quite as refined (a bit rolled off), everything else is almost on par with my Belden 5T00UP 10 AWG diy speaker cable. It has generated some serious hype on the forum.  

I have long and not equal length TWL American speaker cables. I have a friend who was thinking that trying different (and equal) cables would be an improvement. So I did - and one with a return policy. The new ones, which are similarly priced, sounded worse (!). It was that some realism vanished. Even the jumper cables made a (negative) difference. I'm not going to mention the name of the other cables btw but I sent them back. 

RCAs also make a difference and in my system I found that power cables make the biggest difference. I borrowed those (and the RCAs) so it wasn't expectation bias there either. I expected to hear no difference. 

@richardbrand 

faustuss said;

Any cord that is shielded be it twisted, braided, wrapped in foil or metal braid or is coaxial has higher capacitance, lower resistance and inductance.

Richard omit "lower resistance". Missed my window of opportunity to edit my post and that's all you'll focus on till the sun goes white dwarf!