Silversmith Fidelium

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.

@mrotino how long did you have the cables for. I actually found the break in time to be quite long, weeks of consistent use each day.