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Silver Cable Question

I've been playing around with the idea of buying some cheap silver interconnects. There are so many companies advertising their products to be competitive with cables that are exponentially more expensive.

Some of these audio bargains are Bear Labs, Homegrown, Norh, Lat International, and a few that I can't recall at the moment.

Now, I have a query and a quagmire. For the people who have experience with any of these silver cables, do they make you feel dumb for spending hundreds more on your old yet inferior cables?

Also, I picked up some Mapleshade interconnects 6 months ago, and they would have sounded great if not for some shielding problems that cause hum in my system. How are the shielding on these cables? They don't look very well insulated.

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viggen OP
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Have any of you guys compared these silver cables with a Coincident CST interconnect? I did some digging, and one reviewer said the silver lace and the cst are almost head to head, one being slighly warmer than the other, in comparison.
viggen OP
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Thanks for everyone's imputs. I've been digging around the 'gon, and, so far, it seems Coincidents is the way to go. Yes, they are not silver, and, yes, they are costlier than the cables I mentioned, so I sorta threw everyone a curve.

But I figure if it's the best cable avaible here and now, and it's only $300, which is only $100 more than my predetermined budget, then I am still running away like a bandit?

Another cable that seems favorable are Harmonic Technology, namely the Silway and the Truthlink. After digging around in Audioreview, people seemed pretty divided between these two cables. They say these cables are system dependent, where warmer systems like silways and neutral systems like the truth links.

My system needs a little bit more clarity in the highs and mids. I am currently using Audiotruth Emeralds, the original version, which has been described as a warm cable.

I've been offered a pair of Silway for $219...
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