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Silver Cable Question

I've been playing around with the idea of buying some cheap silver interconnects. There are so many companies advertising their products to be competitive with cables that are exponentially more expensive.

Some of these audio bargains are Bear Labs, Homegrown, Norh, Lat International, and a few that I can't recall at the moment.

Now, I have a query and a quagmire. For the people who have experience with any of these silver cables, do they make you feel dumb for spending hundreds more on your old yet inferior cables?

Also, I picked up some Mapleshade interconnects 6 months ago, and they would have sounded great if not for some shielding problems that cause hum in my system. How are the shielding on these cables? They don't look very well insulated.

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lak
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You will not have any problems with the Bear Labs Silver Thunder, Homegrown, or Silver Audio. I have used the silver cables I mentioned.
captain
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HELLO VIGGEN,I am using a 4 meter pair of new homegrown super silver 2 interconnects between my audible illusions preamp and threshold sa6e pure class A mono-blocks amps.my front end is a basis ovation turntable with a graham arm and transfiguration espirit cartridge running the graham silver ic30 phono cables directly into the preamp.the cartridge has an output of 1.3mv which is perfect for my system.my speakers are von schweikert vr6 which are very revealing.speaker cables are acarian black orpheus by alon.i have tried many cable combos among many speakers and electronics and this is the best sound i have had.getting back to your original question,in my system the homegrown are the ticket.i have no need to spend more on interconnects because i already have and these work the best for me,but maybe not for you.EXPERIMENT AND ENJOY,RICH
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audiotomb
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I tried silver audio Hyacynths and they were too bright (bleached out) but very very revealing in my system. Then again maybe it's my AR LS2 preamp. I went with Harmonic Tech Pro Silway II's, natural sounding.
sdcampbell
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I have 1 pair of HomeGrown's Silver Lace, 5 pairs of their Super Silvers, and 2 pair of their Silver Solution (office system), and I have been very pleased with all of them. Based on my experience in my own system, I don't think the Silver Lace offers enough improvement over the Super Silver to merit the extra cost. If you want to save some money, and have decent soldering skills, get the Super Silver kit for $60 and try a pair. I don't think there is ANY cable on the market at $60/pr that comes close to the Super Silver.
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