Silversmith Fidelium

I absolutely love my Fideliums running between my Pass XA60.5s and Borresen Z1s. (I believe Jeff Smith is working on interconnects as well and I’d really like to try them when ready.)

My other cables and power cords are a mix of RSX (power, phono), Synergistic (IC) and DH Labs (ICs).

There is always one negative, and I guess I’m that one. I was not impressed.

To me, the music was congested and limited in the frequency extremes. Additionally, I had to turn the volume up quite a bit more to achieve the same volume as before.

Now, I am using tube amps so that could very well be the reason. I think it’s an impedance thing.

Many love these cables, so my opinion is just that, my opinion, but I warned ya.

ozzy

@ozzy   To be clear you are now using different amps than when you tried them and those are now tube amps? What amps were in there at the time?

I am still using the same amps, Bob Carver Raven 350. I have never had a speaker cable affect the sound quality as much as the Fidelium cables did. Best I could describe them is they acted like a big resistor. I seem to remember a posting stating they can create an impendence mismatch with some equipment.

I am now using the Townshend F1 speaker cables and am very impressed with them.

ozzy

I had the same experience as Ozzy did when I tried these cables.  I had to increase the volume a bit as well and I felt the dynamics and extension on both ends was a little curtailed compared to my other two speaker cables.

Both of the amps I used with them and still use are the Pathos twin towers hybrid integrated amp and the Tsakiridis Aelos all tube EL34 integrated amp.  

My speakers are 97 db and 8 ohm efficient.

I assume it is a synergy issue as I know the reviews are excellent.  I was able to sell them for almost no loss as they are very favorably reviewed.

I guess nothing is ever going to always work in everyone's system.