Reviving an old thread, but has anyone directly compared the 'new' round Meridian SpeakerLink cable to the 'old' flat one on the endpoint-DSP runs?

The current flat Meridian cables I have are fine, but much too long so I have a lot of untidy wire everywhere. Unfortunately, some bright spark at Meridian omitted probably the most common length of speaker wire sold (around 2.5m) from the inventory for the flat wire (which jumps from 1m to 5m). Well, I've rarely, if ever, seen speakers only 2m apart, and the average British home doesn't have 10m walls on the narrow end, so I'm not sure what the thinking was there, or if there was any.

Until they see fit to offer pre-terminated flat SpeakerLink somewhere between those extremes, I'll have to use something else, so any auditioning findings would be welcome!

HC: 861v4/ID40/LPS, DSP5000, DSP5000VC, DSP3100, SW1600, HD621, Oppo BDP-105, Sony VPL-HW55ES
2-Channel: Oppo BDP-105, TEAC VRDS-7/Trichord Clock 3/PSU, 551, Quad 303, Harbeth Compact 7ES-3, Kimber cables, Russ Andrews mains and supports.
Previous Meridian: 5000C, 5200SL, 7200.2, 6000, 562V.2, 568.2mm, 800v4, 808.2i, 818v2/v3, 861v8, 502