Just for perspective, say you plunk down mega-bucks for the super whamadyne connections for your equipment. Is that same super oxygen free counterclockwise organic silver shielded WIRE still getting its input from whatever plain old 16 gauge copper inside the gear or in the speakers.. Wire is wire and for the distances we usually see any 12-14 gauge copper lamp cord from Home Depot works for speakers and interconnects from BJC or Monoprice save me big bucks i can spend elsewhere. The same kind of niche group exists for all hobbies. I refuse to read articles in the various review mags once they proclaim that they are experiencing nirvana from some new cable wrapped in some sort of material that is obtained only from comets.