Silver Speaker Cables

@akg_ca 

+1. Nordost makes some of the most amazing cables. I agree, at the high end they are amazing… but much less impressive at the low end… I made this observation as well.

Yes there are budget silver cables.

The issue can be that cheap silver cables can be unflatteringly revealing on your components. The better the silver cables the less harsh they are.

So my first question is what is your system. There is a place under your UserID (click around) to put photos and identify your system. This would be extremely helpful to us… allowing us to help you.

In general: copper is warm and covers up harshness in inexpensive components. Silver coated copper can help reveal detail without giving up bass. Finally silver can be fast and detailed… but harsh and light on the bass. This is for budget cables.

Even for fairly good systems silver can be really bad. Now, high end, the materials become less important as techniques of using dielectric coatings, geometry, and strand size and mixtures of filaments effect the sound.

Having said all this. If you want to try, my go-to budget brand is DHLabs Silver Sonic.

So if your system is warm… and you are craving greater detail._ inexpensive silver may do the trick.

Thanks for the system info. I don’t know what the sound characteristics of your preamp is. But looking at how many functions it has, I would be a bit concerned it might not be up to silver… would you consider your system to be pretty warm? If yes, then silver may be ok. Again, I would try DHLabs.

I think the thread does a good job of pointing out the possible outcomes. Maybe it would be best to try some from cableCo.

@jimski 

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