I have a couple pair of the Quicksilver ICs. I firmly believe that if Mike Sanders at Quicksilver advertised as most of his competitors do, the prices of his products would be 50% higher than they are. In an audio world where higher price is so often perceived as reflective of higher performance, the lower prices of his offerings result in many thinking they must not be competetive with the ARCs and Conrad Johnsons and so on - based on price alone.
As far as the interconnects go, word is he was making them for his own use, friends and dealers heard them, loved them, and asked him to make them commercially available. I plan to replace the Kimber PBJ throughout my system with the QS cables. I haven't compared them directly with anything else, but the PBJ was working just fine for me until I tried out a pair of the Quicksilvers. Maybe someone else on here has some experience comparing them directly to other, more expensive cables. They show up periodically here on Audiogon. I'd say buy a pair and try them out. Try them in different places in your system. If you don't like them for some reason, you'd easily get your money back reselling them here.
As far as the interconnects go, word is he was making them for his own use, friends and dealers heard them, loved them, and asked him to make them commercially available. I plan to replace the Kimber PBJ throughout my system with the QS cables. I haven't compared them directly with anything else, but the PBJ was working just fine for me until I tried out a pair of the Quicksilvers. Maybe someone else on here has some experience comparing them directly to other, more expensive cables. They show up periodically here on Audiogon. I'd say buy a pair and try them out. Try them in different places in your system. If you don't like them for some reason, you'd easily get your money back reselling them here.