Gabriel Gold IC's are they really this good?

Regarding gold alloys.They are not all the same.
If one is willing to invest a great deal of money and has some experience as a metallurgist a wire manuafacturer will build wire for you.Percentages of Gold,Silver and Copper can vary along with the purity of the materials.If you are willing to pay it can be provided.
You can even have platinum wire made if you want to pay for it.
And let us not forget the Cryo process which also can vary.Once one has the wire the design then plays the major role.
For instance as member fiddler asked in regard to Audio Metallury.It is my understanding that the AM cables use a 20 gauge gold alloy with (2)conductors in their RCA design.
I have heard very good things about the AM cable.
The Gabriel Gold Revelations use different gauges of Gold alloy in their design and also use (3) conductors in their RCA cable.
The rest of the design is also totally different from one manufacturer to the other.Both companies are achieving great sonic results with what they do.To think that there is one Gold alloy out there and only one factory in the world can make it and that every cable that uses a gold alloy has a similar sound is just not a fair or accurate assessment.

"If one is willing to invest a great deal of money and has some experience as a metallurgist a wire manuafacturer will build wire for you.Percentages of Gold,Silver and Copper can vary along with the purity of the materials.If you are willing to pay it can be provided.

Audiobuzz, you made my point precisely!

The cable business seems to be divided between the "big boys" and the "small fries". The big boys certainly have the money to have any wire they want made to their specifications. However, I seriously doubt that all of the small fries in the cottage industry we are discussing here have their own wire made to their specifications. Just a guess, but I suspect a good one.

The Audio Metallurgy design is a simple design and I suspect that the Gabriels are also. That is not a knock on either of them, but rather a plus. I personally believe that's one reason their cables sound so good. But if you read other websites it seems that alloy cables are getting stellar reviews from numerous manufacturers. "Alloy" wire seems to incorporate the best of each metal and apparently the combination of metals create a synergy above and beyond the strengths of the singular metals.

You don't need to defend Gabriel cables here. No one is attacking Steve's products. I want to try them myself! All I am saying is that it is my opinion that the "alloy" wire is a big part of the "small fry" victories.

WOW! I hope the people at Audio Metallurgy and Steve don't mind being called "small fries"
I hear both of them have some deep pockets.

Darealjaydee,

Audio Metallurgy and Steve may have pockets as deep as Bill Gates, but they don't sell a drop in the bucket in cables as compared to Monster, MIT, Transparent, Nordost, etc. They *are* small fries in the cable world. But that has nothing to do with the quality of their cables. And I know from experience how good AM cables are and I suspect Steve's cables are as good or better.

If the AM folks and Steve have pockets as deep as you suggest, then they are probably smart business people, as well. I am sure they clearly understand the economies of scale and invest money in their companies based on those principles.

WOW! I hope the people at Audio Metallurgy and Steve don't mind being called "small fries"
I hear both of them have some deep pockets.

This is purely a objective, academic discussion, no need for consideration of egos or tip-toeing around semantics, I think. The term was used merely to provide a relative reference or point of contrast from which the author could begin to make his point.

I too have wondered about the economics behind such a small operation that produces such a great product. Contrasting the excellent GGs or AMs against bigger companies' (possibly inferior) product is intuitively interesting and one obviously inquires, "How can this be?"

I did research all the bigger cable companies' product before I bought the GGs. They all seemed to have several obvious weaknesses or trade-offs and the GGs did not, which is why I took the leap of faith with GGs. I was not disappointed, even though my standards and expectations were set very high.