Welcome to another Pacific Northwest'er. Portland seems to be a popular place for Infinity. I have a good friend forum member down there who I'm rebuilding a set of 2.5's for.
I've owned a few sets of Audioquest speaker cables, and have used Type 8's for a number of years now. I can just say one thing about them....ditch their stock Audioquest plastic-bodied spades or bananas and re-terminate with something better. I re-terminated the Type 8's with these:
https://www.zavfino1877.com/spadeconnector and I am so much happier with the cables. I was never fond of the internal mechanical connection that the Audioquest stock connectors made with the individual wires that comprise the cable. The 1877's, on the other hand, have a solid double screw down, and lots of space to solder internally. Far superior.
I've also used the Rocket 88's. I think the only difference between the 44s and the 88s is that the 88 has the dielectric bias system, whereby a battery exerts a constant voltage on the dielectric with no current flow. Audioquest produces a ton of dbs cables in both speaker cables and interconnects. The idea behind it is to keep the cable "broken in". Much like breaking in new capacitors in a crossover network, listeners -including me- feel that they often sound better after having an electrical voltage (the audio signal voltage) applied to them over some time, usually 1 or 2 hundred hours. As a side note, this suggests something interesting to me- that the dielectric has far more influence on the sound of cables than we generally think. There seems to be a growing trend in high-end audio that favors cables with less and less (or no) dielectric. Morrow Audio, AntiCables, Audio Envy, etc. I'm trying some Audio Envy interconnects and really like them.
I also have a set of Audioquest Slate's with old-style narrow spades on one end that are for my Audio Research Classic 120's. I can't see that there is any real difference between the construction of the Slate's and the Rocket 44's.
So I guess you could say that ALL my speaker cables are Audioquest. I have no complaints at all, except those stock spades & bananas. If you get them online from Audio Advisor, though, you can get them terminated by one of AA's techs, and those terminations are much better.
G~