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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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mrmb
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Oops, please NOTE:  The sentence in the 3rd. paragraph of my above post, should have included the word NOT, as in:  "The differences were NOT astounding, but there."

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And yet another modification to my above post: 

I mentioned a change from 10' Fidelium's to 12'.   Actually, I moved from 8' ones to 10' ones.  Ten feet is the longest Silversmith sells.

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Fideliums look more fragile than they are.  However, finger tightening them or going a little easy on using a wrench to torque them down, is probably prudent.  Perhaps because of their lack of connectors, their use would be contraindicated if you rotated speakers in & out of the room daily, but other than that, handle them as you would with any other speaker cable.    

Resistance suppositions are fine, but when I compared Nordost and Iconclast speaker cables on my SoundLab's (which go as low as 2-ohms), the Fidelium's won.  Electrostatic's in general like to "see" speaker cables with Low Capacitance, Low Inductance and Average to low resistance.  Nordost fit those requirements, yet my audition pair weren't as good as my 10' Fidelium audition pair.  They stayed and the other two cables went back.  I even switched from 10' to 12' Fidelium's with no resulting differences. 

With the Fidelium's and the other audition pair's I noticed little difference in frequency response.  What prompted my preferring them was their sense of ease (for lack of a better description) and a better soundstage.  The differences were astounding, but there.  Because I liked the Fideliums better and they were a couple times less expensive than the other two, keeping them was an easy decision.

Obviously, everyone's results will vary, especially depending upon one's amps and speakers.  But that's why manufacturer's like Silversmith have a trial period.  So rather than guessing about this, that or another thing, simply try them.  You will be surprised when you receive them in a feather-weight, hand-size box.  Although based on research, I expected them to weigh little and take up little space when rolled-up, the box's feel and size was still surprising.🙂   

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