i'm about to pick up some cables myself finally.
they are custom, hand made jobbies by a guy named "Gregg Stanley". They are supposed to be quite impressive, but ugly. Bright red and braided like licorice rope.
He lives in Chicago and is a member of an audiophile club there whos members include some big names in the hi-fi world. Big names as in owners, founders and designers of a lot of gear we use (the P of PS-Audio comes to mind, Paul something or another....)
any way, almost everyone in the club runs his cable, and they have ABA'd it against a lot of big dollar cables. I think he sells an 8' pair for under $200 !!
I'm going to build him a web site to help get his cable efforts rolling, and in return I get a free pair, a pair of jumpers and an IC. Pretty cool! I'm going to review them, though I dont have much to benchmark them against (MIT term 3 and term 2), but it should still be interesting.
I'll post here when I'm finished with it.
Scott, great score on those fatties you have! +T for the find.