1.Silver cables do sound bright, lean and harsh fresh out of the box. 2.Silver cables do need at least 2 weeks of continuous break-in. 3.Silver cables, once broken-in, will definitely sound smoother, more transparent, more detailed and neutral compared to any copper cable of the same design. 4.Silver cables will tend to have a lighter but more defined bass. 5.The advantage of silver is that it is a lot more audible in speaker cables than interconnects. 6.Audioquest silver cables are the least colored and mate well with most varieties of electronics and speakers. They are excellent with Thiel, B&W, Snell, Martin Logan and Apogee speakers, just to name a few of the big brands. These unanimous conclusions are based on extensive listening and blind test between myself, my brothers and friends. In fact, we all modified our speakers with silver wirings. If you know how to solder, I would strongly recommend it, but be very careful. Keep playing with your cables and they will sound great.
Does silver speaker wire sound bright?
I purchased a kit of 99.999% pure silver speaker wire with PTFE insulation and assembled it. I installed it on my system and it seems to scream at me. My system is all tube (Melos)and my speakers are the North Creek Rhythm. I use the preamp also as a headphone amp and use Grado SR325's. The headphones are not bright they lean tward a little dark sounding. I feel the brightness is in the cables and wounder if they will mellow with age, and how long will it take?