Stranded silver sounds more etched in my system, yet extremely detailed. Solid silver seems smooth sweet & more accurate in timbre. It depends on the brightness of the rest of your system and the listening room. I sometimes switch from stranded to solid silver to change the systems character,but always migrate back to the solid silver. Silver is a better conductor for interconnects but you have to be careful with its implementation. I tried changing a 2 inch long internal wire on my DAC from the stock common stranded copper to solid and stranded silver and it changed the sound of the unit for the worse- bright, etched, harsh, made only certain program material sound correct. Many times the designers try all types of internal wires in development and design a units "characteristic sound" around their choice of wire.
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?