Xangsane SP-9001AG silver interconnect

@lak 

I'm not making any criticism of Veritas cables as I haven't heard them, but I will say that these Xangsane, their top interconnect model, are $145.00 plus tax whereas the Veritas are $349.00 as an introductory price and are not their top model. In addition to that, I thought that their description was very circumspect.  They don't specify metal used for wire or RCA's (they say they use what's best for each model), and then say that they don't want to confuse the potential buyer with too many details, which sounds ridiculous to me. 

Xangsane says what they use as well as showing a detailed cutaway of the internals. The wire is sillver and the RCA's are gold plated copper.

@ullodea 

I just received the interconnects last night and I am very happy with them.

@photon46 

I don't doubt the validity of your findings, because your gear is on a higher level than mine. I don't have an issue with the RAC's as much as I do with the screw -on sleeves which often seem to stop working. They still equal (sonically) a set of Kimber Select in my system.

@tweak1 

I have the same and it's the best I've ever used.

@ullodea

Coincidentally, I just ordered a set of the very same as my Christmas present! There may be better on Aliexpress but I know this brand and think that they’re great quality and sound, so I’m sticking with them. I don’t think you’ll be sorry.

@soix 

Yes, I absolutely love it. It has surpassed the performance of a set of $900 Kimber Select interconnects. Is it state of the art? I'm sure not, but I haven't heard that so I couldn't judge. I have had a number of other interconnects that were good in one way or another, but this one is good at everything to me, balanced without any apparent weaknesses. I really believe that this company makes things the right way, and they show you the construction of their cables on the site which I like. I really recommend that you try them. 

For the price it's almost silly not to.

We are aware of that, and I think the general concensus is that the Chinese site is using this as a term of glamour, not realizing that most of the world uses that term as a specific measure of purity.

If you notice, they also use a lot of other amusing descriptors. Their higher-grade cables are often called "fever", and yesterday I saw a cable on aliexpress being praised by its seller for its "grainy high frequencies". 

I thought that you were going to ignore me Jerry.

@j_andrews 

Sorry for that error.

@j_andrews 

It is on the Xangsane website, but not Aliexpress.

xangsane 1pair SP-9003Ag 6N single crystal pure silver audio cable rca cable hifi carbon fiber rhodium-plated plug signal cable (xangsaneaudio.com)

@rolox @soix ,

I tend to be impulsive, and I'm sure that your friend knows more than I do about the subject rolox. I just made a last minute decision to try the round wire model, and hope that I don;t regret that decision.

Soix, to answer to your question, I ordered it directly from Xangsane. Is it really what they say it is? I don't know; but I'm not betting my life on it, just $160, so we'll se how it sounds.  

@jerryg123 

I was trying to determine the difference between the model I ordered and the one that @rolox bought. On aliexpress, it doesn't mention that his has a rectangular silver wire, although they do mention it on the Xangsane site. What I did notice was that the actual RCA on the one I ordered is said to be gold plated copper, and the other model is gold plated, but they don't mention it being copper. I also notice some differences in insulation materials.

I am looking forward to hearing it for sure, and if it is as good as @rolox and some others say, $160 for a meter pair is a giveaway. 

@rolox 

Well, I took a chance and ordered the one that I provided the link for. I don't know when it will get here, but I'll let you know what I think of it when it does, I ordered it directly from Xangsane as aliexpress didn't sell that particular model.  

@rolox Thanks for the heads-up. I looked on their site and I see that there is another silver RCA that is supposedly 6n silver, but the conductors are round as opposed to rectangular. I wonder which is better since I've heard that there is an advantage to rectangular conductors, although I don't know why that would be. 

xangsane 1pair SP-9003Ag 6N single crystal pure silver audio cable rca cable hifi carbon fiber rhodium-plated plug signal cable (xangsaneaudio.com)