IC's are 1 meter Homegrown Silver Lace. The Official Interconnect of Audiogon. Mapleshade says less than 8' sounds bad so I started there. Used to be you wanted to solder your amps output transformer leads to the speaker inputs and have longer IC's. Don't know whose right. I haven't tried short magnet wires, but will. All this magnet wire stuff is an attempt to emulate the sound of 47 Labs OTA wire which is a 26 ga heavily teflon coated copper.After 100's of hours of break-in it;s supposee to be very special. $600. Also an Audiogon fave. The Zobel is still attached with gators but I consider it permanent. I made the mistake of two tweaks at once. The bad effect was the wire, not the network.