ZYX Universe silver vs copper

Cousinbilly1,

Rcupka is correct, you've got it backwards. The copper UNIverse has more lifelike leading edge transients. More jump.

The silver rolls off leading edges almost like a Koetsu woodbody. It sounds more relaxed and smoothed.

I'm not familiar with your electronics, but on a Schroeder I'd expect the silver UNIverse would be noticeably on the warm side of neutral.

Just wondering, would the same be true for the rest of the Zyx line in choosing between copper and silver?

I have found the exact opposite qualities with the Airy3.
I preferred the Cu in terms of naturalness.

I decided on the Silver. Thank you all.

Hello all,

I've heard things on high resolution systems that one can only get a hint at on other systems.

Even on my rig, the difference between copper and silver coiled ZYSXs is subtle but noticeable - with a preference for the copper, which is in general slightly more revealing than the silver. This is quite counterintuitive from the normal characterization of silver. IOW, what Doug said.

The differences (even on a high-rez system) are such that unless you worked hard to commit a few reference recordings to memory, I doubt you'd care about them once you owned either one.

Having said that, my preference is for copper on all but the nastiest sounding rigs ... the kind of rig that a Universe or Airy-2/Airy-3 owner is unlikely to own (a nasty sounding one).

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier