The sole purpose of the Zu Cables was the fact you can get good cables at cheap prices on their e-bay auctions. I thought I couldn't go wrong with the good prices. I went from Monster Cables to Blue Jeans Cables. Also had DH Labs Silversonics but I never had matching cables. Now all my cables are the same brand. The biggest difference I found was the power cable on my preamp, the speaker cables and power cables on my CDP.