This is great reading (and surprisingly civilized), +T's all around.
I got anti-cables awhile back, mostly because:
1 - They were cheap
2 - Good reviews
3 - Supposedly okay to have a long run and a short run. One speaker is next to the stereo, one is about 8 feet away.
4 - Thin enough to slip into the tiny space between my fireplace and hardwood floors. I had fat wire before, and it ran right in front of the fireplace....bad WAF. (of course, stuffing the wire into a little crack, vs. having aged cedar blocks lifting it off the floor, probably destroys any possible benefits I may have received from the "cable upgrade"
)
Did I hear a change like someone opening a window and letting the air in, pulling the scales off my eyes, pulling the cotton out of my ears, whatever....? Well, I sorta kinda maybe thought it sounded better, maybe sorta kinda. There was a touch more....clarity.....extended, tighter bass.....greater resolution.....instruments more precisely located not just on a flat plane, but in a 3-d holographic spacial juxtaposition.....maybe.
But then, how could that be, since I'm still using Rat Shack interconnects?
I like the way my system sounds (not that it's perfect, and not that I don't have some improvements planned).