Coming back to this topic, I'm actually "downgrading" my cables. Since I posted originally I bought some Mogami and BJC cables. I like and will keep the Mogamis, the BJC while excellent are just too big and heavy and the connectors are rough on vintage RCAs (they grip excellently but not too tightly, it's the sheer weight of them and the diameter is such that on some gear they are touching and putting some slight sideways pressure on the jacks) after buying some of the PX blowout Acoustic Research video cables and turning them into audio cables (with judicious use of paint pen) I can't tell the difference in performance so those are my go to going forward. So my average cost per cable is under $10 and yet I'm happy