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Siltech cable guages i.e. AWG

Hello;

I've been trying to get some information on the gauge of some of the Siltech lineup and haven't been able to find any information. The Siltech website sucks, next to no information on their cables. I sent an e-mail a few days ago but haven't received a response.

It's the speaker cables and power cables I'm most interested in and at this point even seeing an aggregate gauge of the cables including shields would be of help.

I'm interested in the following:

330L
550L
770L
Prince
King

SPX-800
Ruby Hill II
Ruby Mountain II

For power cables the largest gauge cable I'm familiar with is the Kimber PK-10 series which I believe is aggregate 10AWG so I can use that as a reference. Similarly for speaker cables the largest aggregate cable I'm familiar with is the Kimber Monocle XL which might be around 8AWG. So even if people were able to say for example the SPX-800 is roughly the same thickness as the PK-10, or the 770L is about as thick as the Monocle XL that helps me get an idea.

Thanks
brystonuser
deedo
10 posts
 
Excellent. I've read the digital cables are very natural sounding provided of course the source is. I sold my Princess to create some funds to go in a different direction with my system, and bought a Wireworld PE7 in the meantime. I won't give my comparison on the cables but I will say I would consider the Princess and PE7 to be direct competitors, but I remain of the opinion that nothing else except Silver/Gold conductors can reach that nth degree of resolution while retaining almost as much musicality as the very best can produce, one of them being Kondo SPz. Interestingly I have tried a Siltech SQ-28 Mkll with Kondo KSL-SPz, this combination seemed to add resolution to the Kondo while enhacing the musicality overall. That said I aim to purchase another Princess in the near future and plan to add Prince speaker cable later, when the £s permit :) keeping the loom the same should reap greater results than the sum of the parts, even if it may be tempting to try Kondo's new heavier guage SPz.
brystonuser OP
17 posts
 
I've read nothing but great things about the Wireworld cables, especially the Silver & Platinum Eclipse speaker cables and interconnects. The Princess price is a bit more than Platinum interconnects especially as you increase length while the Platinum speaker cables price wise fall really close to the King rather than the Prince. The Plats are around $1k US more MSRP than the King for 2 meters. So I can definitely see where these models would all be in competition with each other. The Plat speaker cables are noticeably larger than their siblings due to the larger 9 AWG wire. They look like monsters from the pics I have seen, really thick which is cool.

Of course in the Wireworld lineup the Plats are all she wrote while in the Siltech line up they just keep going upwards beyond Princess for interconnects and King for speaker cables.
stringreen's avatar
stringreen
6,484 posts
 
Its amazing to me how wire reacts so differently in different systems. Of my favorite cables, the Audioquest MontBlanc/Everest sounded oh so great. When I exchanged these for the William F Lowe Sigs, the sound made a marked decrease in quality. My favorite now is Wireworld....the ease that they portray is wonderful... This sense of ease is so important when you hear it, that its hard to listen to other cable ...none of which demonstrates this ability.
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