Well I joined the Silversmith FIDELIUM Speaker cable club today

@steakster

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full time instigator and troll, sucking in the naive into his arguments and put downs

109 posts - and counting - in just 5 short days since ’joining’

hopefully tammy and crew will pull the plug sooner rather than later... 

I am an owner of the Fidelium cables (8 ft pair).  I purchased them after reading many testimonials of the great sound improvement, and who doesn’t want that.  I was using a pair of XLO Signature3 - 5.2 (8 ft).  Jeff was offering a money back guarantee so nothing to lose and everything to gain.  After installing the Fidelium cables, I could hear no real difference in sound.  I was very disappointed.  I called Jeff and we had a good talk.  I told him I had been using the XLO cables and his exact words were “I wouldn’t expect you to hear much difference between the two cables.  The XLO might sound a bit brighter”.  I wish manufactures would make these statements in their advertising. It would save us all a lot of frustration.  My other take on the Fidelium is this.  They are very awkward to handle.  I made some purpose build stands to support the “ribbons” along the run and off the floor.  Shame you can’t attach a picture in this forum.  It is very easy to put a crease in the shielding, but it has no impact on performance.  I just changed out my amps and only need 4 ft cables now.  Jeff has offered to cut and re terminate them for me and a very small cost.  His service is first rate and that means a lot to me.  Bottom line is I’m still using them.  Visually, they make a statement and that must be worth something.  Ha ha

Later I can post a photo of the mod (slits) to my cable risers I use to keep the spacing tamed on these.

I don't find them dainty and I'm quite clumsy and non-athletic. I just have my ruggedly handsome looks to get me through life......

I had an inexpensive tri wire 5 foot set of Van Damme cables for two years causing me to bend each time I had to play an LP but they were decent in many respects. I needed to move to 6 footers and tried a half dozen biwire sets from Audioquest, Allnic and Cardas between 3K and 8K a set. Each set while smoothing out the response seemed to veil the mids and higher frequencies. A friend suggested Fidelium and I tried a bi wire set of 6 footers with no expectations and they simply resolved all of the issues of the Van Damme with no apparent veiling. I then added another run for true bi wire and they improved further. They are different, however, once you have them installed with the contact area placed correctly and locked down they stay put.

I would not do a demo without including Fidelium. They are that good.

I do think there is something about this wires design that did not mesh with my equipment. More resistance? I dunno.

I am using tubes amps and when I tried these cables the bass, treble and dynamics was anemic. It had a good midrange though. And, I had to turn the volume up a few more notches when playing.

Many here love these cables so it must be my specific amp/speaker configuration that did not work well with these cables.

I went to the Townshend F-1 Fractal speaker cables. Very nice match.

ozzy