Price: $17,500/8’ pair for speaker cables; $7500/1m pair (RCA) for interconnects

Website: www.synergisticresearch.com

Howard said: I’m smitten with the sound of Synergistic Research’s Galileo SXes: breathtakingly lively, exciting, and dynamic, yet gorgeously rich, musical, and accurately full-bodied.

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The gist: Howard says Synergistic has upped their game again.