@mglik what cable brand?
Well I joined the Silversmith FIDELIUM Speaker cable club today
The story behind this goes like this. I bought new speakers in December and their placement forced me to stop using my Wireworld Gold Eclipse III bi wire cables because they were too short. So for an interim cable I found a 2 meter pair of the "Regular" Eclipse III wires used being that I wanted to keep it in the "Family." My entire loom for the most part is Wireworld Gold Eclipse III interconnects. The Reg Eclipse III seemed fine but I alway felt I was missing something I was used to before, like it was just a little veiled comparatively. I've researched the hell out of cables and was just going to get a set of the New Eclipse 8's but when they raised the price for a 2M pair another $500 to $2000 I decided to look elsewhere, scouring used cables for months. Well through that process I discovered the many threads and positive reviews on the Silversmiths, so since they were more like what I was hopefully willing to spend I ordered a 6 foot set. Today I placed them into my system and after about one minute into the track I was astonished! I couldn't move from my chair, I listened to the entire album in astonishment. They literally "fixed" my system, it's never ever sounded this good. It's only been a few hours so i won't go into everything that happened right now but new cables are not supposed to sound this good straight out of the box. I am lucky. they blend with my system right away. The Bass was so immediately impactful I just cannot believe a cable can make this much change, the inner detail and transparency, wow! I know these things have been raked over the coals in these forums and their are some that are naysayers, but in my case I was one of the lucky ones because these babies are not going back to Chris! I cannot stop listening, it's amazing.
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What you are hearing when you use the Fidelium cable will not be the the lack of connectors, or the wire, or the insulators it will be the very high resistance of the cable compared to other cables. Are there any other speaker cables on the market that have as high of resistance as these cables? I wonder if the people advocating for this cable understand how much resistance it is adding to the total connection. Do you have an amplifier with high damping factor? You do not any more.
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@deludedaudiophile I really wasn’t intending to open a can worms here. Jeff has a really great cable, I’ll definitely purchase his interconnects and his upcoming reference cable if that does indeed happen. Have you listened to Fidelium? It’s definitely worth a try, easy resell if you go past 30 days. It’s right up there in resale value with the most popular products. |
Now that I understand the cables I would not put them in my system. My speakers impedance drops below 3 ohms. If i use these it would cause changes in the frequency response significant enough to be heard. Rough estumate is as much as a 3db change in the response at some frequencies. That is huge and I didn't pay money for a good speaker to screw it up I am not surprised people experience a difference compared to other cables I don't know how you would not.
My amp has high damping factor. This cable would also destroy that property. It would also cause a loss of 2.5db of headroom. I would lose 100 watts from my amp. |
Do people advocating this cable realize it will add a large resistance between their speaker and amplifier? This will change the frequency response of your system. The change will be large enough to be audible. I am not sure people realize this and it is not clear on the website. You could be adding almost 2 ohms to your speaker connection. That is big. |
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