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Shunyata now uses silver ???...

I’ve been a long time fan of the Shunyata brand of cables. One of the rare real science audiophile cable makers, with relatively speaking reasonable prices also.

Shunyata has always turned away from silver. All these years of upgrading their lines...first came the helix virtual tube copper conductors, then the vtx conductors ( simpler virtual tubes) , then the revolution ary Ztron circuit eliminating skin lost of signal, then the even more revolutionary noise reduction circuits.

I’ve followed Caelin journey and numerous posts on forums. He always sweared they tried silver conductors and it never came as a solution to better sound compared to their premium copper. Never. And he also always sweared by their vtx air core surrounded by copper conductors.

And now what, their new line of reference power cables uses what.... SILVER conductors !??? And guess what, they decided to put them inside the virtual air core of the vtx conductors....which are not really vtx conductors anymore when you objectively  realise the truth.....because they filled the empty air core with a darn isolated silver wire !!...

I really think Shunyata have lost it this time... The logic in their science is no more.
My two cents.
A long time customer, now very perplex about their choices.
techno__dude
maxima95
294 posts
 
cleeds

Unfortunately, that seems to be the gist of the post.  Shunayata has never used any science either.  I imagine their Medical customers will be chagrined to find this out.

I too was surprised to find that they were using silver.  So what?

nicotico
187 posts
 
What’s perplexing is all the language on the website. Just count the number of acronyms. One can’t make any sense of it, and that’s by design. 
glupson
7,842 posts
 
I have Shunyata balanced interconnects. Connectors are shiny silverish. I guess they are not real silver as they never need polishing.

As for the sound, it seems to be no different than $15-20 cables I had before. They look better, though.
glupson
7,842 posts
 
"Cardiac signals had jaw dropping improvements..."

Are these really the words the man chose? Straight from some audio magazine review.

It is a bit weird that there is a promotional video on the website. How much did the hospital get for that?

Is the comparison from the same sample?

As geoffkait would say, something bad happens without advertising.....nothing.

http://clearimagescientific.com/
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twoleftears
5,318 posts
 
Very simple: they can charge more for silver.
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