Prem, my system details are in my signature. It is a pretty elaborate signature for all it's worth. Anyway, on my primary system with horns and all tubes, I get very good textures, it is really open. In the entire chain, if I use thickly shielded wires (speaker cables, ICs, ..), it seems to constrict the sound and take away from the openness. The shielded cables may bring in heft but makes it a bit claustrophobic for my liking. I have always found myself going back to Lyrita single core and Mr. Murthy's cables - both ICs and Speaker cables. With the tubes, I find Mr. Murthy's ICs best placed between all amps except on the phono so I use these interchangeably. For a long time I was using Lyrita's 14awg enamled single core copper speaker wires, then I shifted to Murthy's and it seemed to bring in a bit more focus and sensation of deeper lows. However, post I upgraded the XO to Sonicaps and Erse's flatfoil inductors, the mid bass heft and textures have become so rich that I went back to the Lyrita speaker cables. Lyrita speaker cables have more articulate and natural sounding low and free flowing mids with non-fatiguing highs. I am happy with this sound mostly. Now the other trick is that I listen to a wide variety of music, almost bipolar that ways, ranging anywhere from Indian classical, ghazals, blues, electronic, ambient, jazz. Basically all over the place. So while I am absolutely satisfied with the cables for now, I won't mind increasing the bass control on this system a tad bit.
On my second system though, I have recently changed my speakers from Fostex to Monitor Audio Platinum 200. This is a different animal altogether and here Mr. Murthy's speaker cables seem to give the MA speakers a nice balance. This system will eventually also have a high current solid state amplifier coming in. Here my aim is to slightly make the sound a bit more open, airy and easy going. I have been with tubes as my main systems for a decade so making this change is a quite dramatic for me. I am enjoying this flavour as well, but with breakin and better suited speaker cables, perhaps the overall sound could become slightly more suited for longer listening sessions. The overall SPL becomes a bit too much as the room is also small for the size of these speakers.
Recently I loaned the Furutech speaker cables which are quite expensive (at least for me) and in both my systems, I did not find it to pair well. The detail retrieval was quite good but overall the sound was fatiguing and it was not something that could let me listen to music for long. It had Furutech's Rhodium spade and banana connectors.
So overall, I am intrigued to try out some good speaker cables without breaking the bank, which is why the Auvio and EuroCable options got me interested.
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