Pure Silver Wire

I’m a musical detail freak. Darwin Cable is where I ultimately landed after years of cable upgrades, inchding Odins. Darwin’s have great sound, and the builders provide top tier service. Darwin produces a number of differently priced models. As stated repeatedly, cheap silver is just that. 

I have three or four pairs of inexpensive pure silver cables. I wouldn't describe any of them as bright or harsh.  But, none of them are as good as my Black Cat Silverstar 88 cables. 

@roxy54 

I was suggesting solid core large diameter. Have heard about silver strand speaker wire but it's more like the solid core like you find in house 12/2 electrical wiring style. It's not all that difficult to find someone that draws wire and silver ingot is not that expensive 

I've been building pure silver speaker cables and power cords for years from three-nines soft-annealed round wire or flat wire sourced from Rio Grande.   The key to avoiding stridency is soft-annealing.   A wise manufacturer of 4-nines silver wire once shared with me that 4-nines or higher is largely a marketing gimmick.   

Remember brightness or harshness varies a lot from person to person.  Be tweeters are harsh to some.

One reason this could vary is hearing loss.  As an old guy, my upper frequencies are weak so if something seems harsh to me, all I have to do is take my hearing aids out and voila, no harshness. 

but music sounds much better with my hifi hearing aids in, so I prefer to avoid enhanced upper frequencies and listen with them in.

Jerry