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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bigtwin Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,236 posts 04-25-2022 at 04:15pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @nonoise Thanks. Saved me from having to ask my 10 year old grandson to explain it to me. 🤣
deludedaudiophile Details Discussions Posts This discussion 493 posts 04-25-2022 at 05:05pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @bugredmachine , You made the comment no one is buying Fidelium because of the resistance. No, because until I raised the issue, I no one seemed to know. I took a look at your system. Nice speakers and electronics. You mentioned you had 11 foot, but likely meant 10. That is 1.8 ohms total resistance. At 100 ohms, your speaker is near 2 ohms impedance and if I am reading this graph correctly, near 0 degrees phase. Your amplifiers potential power output at that frequency is reduce to only 27.8% of its potential value with a low resistance cable. The decrease in amplitude at 100Hz compared to 1.2KHz is 3.7db. This is all caused by the resistance of the cable. I know tube amplifiers often have high output impedance so it is not shocking to me that this cable could be reviewed positively. Could this cable cause a solid state amplifier to have a tube like sound? Maybe this is another of the secret sauce for many to prefer tube amplifiers and many to not like them.
bugredmachine Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 449 posts 04-26-2022 at 02:33pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I have been using solid state amplifiers exclusively for years. I also have a new SS amp coming this week. Class A for first 18 watts. So, I don't have much memory for anything in the way of tube amplification. Someone seemed to imply we were buying high resistance cables but as you point out, we were not paying attention to that. We were paying attention to our ears. Now, at the time of purchase the Fideliums were a huge change in sound compared to the graphene-heavy Cerious speaker cables I was using. A no-brainer. I tend to think that flat cables carry the signals in a preferential manner as opposed to the very heavily studied round wire science. Can't explain it right now, but between the SC's and PC's it seems to be pleasing these old ears.
daveyf Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,920 posts 04-26-2022 at 05:37pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete What deludedaudiophhile points out about the resistance of these cables is informative. Does anyone know what the resistance of their speaker cables is…and if this aspect influences their awareness of the SQ? One thing that Nordost specifies is the speed of their cables,.. or what they call the ‘propagation’.. and they relate this to the speed of light. So, for instance with my Red Dawn cables, they are supposedly able to propagate at 94% the speed of light. How they come about with this information is anybody’s guess, but there you have it. Also, Nordost specifies capacitance and inductance, in the case of the same cables…capacitance at 8.7pf/ft and inductance at 0.13uh/ft. To be clear, I find these cables to be very resolving and quick in my system, and they are a great match with both tube and ss amps.
deludedaudiophile Details Discussions Posts This discussion 493 posts 04-27-2022 at 09:56pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete My cables are equivalent to about 11 awg. That mean's their resistance (about 8 ft) is 0.02 ohms in total based on an online calculator. I assure you bugredmachine, there is no magic in flat or round, the same electromagnetic equations still apply. Some manufacturers of audio products would like you to believe that is not true. If they proved anything, they would publish in a respected journal.