Whether Nelson pass has an EE or not, he understand engineering and he would not use silver wire to tune the sound of his amplifiers. He does appear to be a good businessman so perhaps he would include it to sucker in the gullible, but he does not seem the type.
No, Nelson pass uses REAL ENGINEERING to tailor the sound of his amplifiers, not made up engineering and science. He will be the first to admit he tailors the real (not perceived) characteristics of his amplifiers.
The Op, can go to a doctor when he is seriously sick, or he can go to a faith healer. Room acoustics, interactions of a particular tube amp and a speaker, listening and speaker positions, that is real medicine. Silver plated cables is the audio equivalent of a faith healer.
What a weird rant about EE's. Believe it or not, most major audio companies employ lots of EE's, some of them quite good actually. Of course, you are likely to find better EE's designing audio stuff at Bose, or Harmon, or Sonos than you are at most boutique audio companies. If you are smart enough to be a good EE, and you are still an EE, then you probably are not in it for the money anyway. If it was about money, you would have been a doctor or lawyer or investment banker.
p.s. "Sound engineering" has absolutely nothing to do with electrical engineering. It is not even what most would call engineering, so again weird rant. Of course, many do quite well working in the acoustics field.
So back to this Nelson Pass, thing. The engineers you have never heard of design the vast majority of the audio products bought today whether by dollars or by units. High end is but a small subset.
