Well I joined the Silversmith FIDELIUM Speaker cable club today


The story behind this goes like this. I bought new speakers in December and their placement forced me to stop using my Wireworld Gold Eclipse III bi wire cables because they were too short. So for an interim cable I found a 2 meter pair of the "Regular" Eclipse III wires used being that I wanted to keep it in the "Family." My  entire loom for the most part is Wireworld Gold Eclipse III interconnects.  The Reg Eclipse III seemed fine but I alway felt I was missing something I was used to before, like it was just a little veiled comparatively. I've researched the hell out of cables and was just going to get a set of the New Eclipse 8's but when they raised the price for a 2M pair another $500 to $2000 I decided to look elsewhere, scouring used cables for months.  Well through that process I discovered the many threads and positive reviews on the Silversmiths, so since they were more like what  I was hopefully  willing to spend I ordered a 6 foot set. Today I placed them into my system and after about one minute into the track I was astonished! I couldn't move from my chair, I listened to the entire album in astonishment. They literally "fixed" my system, it's never ever sounded this good. It's only been a few hours so i won't go into everything that happened right now but new cables are not  supposed to sound this good straight out of the box. I am lucky. they blend with my system right away. The Bass was so immediately impactful I just cannot believe a cable can make this much change, the inner detail and transparency, wow! I know these things have been raked over the coals in these forums and their are some that are naysayers, but in my case I was one of the lucky ones because these babies are not going back to Chris!  I cannot stop listening, it's amazing.

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Later I can post a photo of the mod (slits) to my cable risers I use to keep the spacing tamed on these.

I don't find them dainty and I'm quite clumsy and non-athletic. I just have my ruggedly handsome looks to get me through life......

I use Verastarr power cables (flat cable) and Fideliums. Some manufacturers make ribbon IC’s. I presently do not have any ribbon IC’s.

I’m pretty sure flat cables make the difference. But maybe, applying the standard RLC thought process is not applicable to ribbons. Perhaps. I’m in the middle of something so my thoughts are not coherent. I’ll check back later.

I don't have to go to the image link menu here, it just lets me paste the link directly in.

I have been using solid state amplifiers exclusively for years. I also have a new SS amp coming this week. Class A for first 18 watts. So, I don't have much memory for anything in the way of tube amplification.

Someone seemed to imply we were buying high resistance cables but as you point out, we were not paying attention to that. We were paying attention to our ears. Now, at the time of purchase the Fideliums were a huge change in sound compared to the graphene-heavy Cerious speaker cables I was using. A no-brainer.

I tend to think that flat cables carry the signals in a preferential manner as opposed to the very heavily studied round wire science. Can't explain it right now, but between the SC's and PC's it seems to be pleasing these old ears. 

You can drag and drop your photos to it and then just right click the image url and paste it here.

I did not notice any break in changes. Stunning from day one.

I don't see contradictions in his statement. I see several points being made there. Made sense to this old engineer's "large" brain :).

Handling: I've had these for 2 years and had no problems with them being fragile or prone to damage. If you have difficult amp binding posts, that can be tricky.