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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@havocman I was paranoid about this, too, the first weeks, but they are surprisingly sturdy--yes, they do end up creasing but this seems to have no effect on sound. I consider them just as sturdy as any other cable, now...

Question: Does anyone have any experience with burn in time? Do they improve a bit over time and if so how much time? 

@fthompson251  they definitely will improve a bit, my experience was the bass came in more, music flowed even better, but it was less than 100 hrs easy.

This is text from what I believe are one of of Silversmith’s patents and while it is not specific to the ribbon, it relates to the thought process. @dgluke , I am not sure if your comment was directed at me, but I think I read the marketing sheet accurately and interpreted it accurately. This would imply the Fidelium could be high in resistance. This would contribute heavily to a distinctive sound signature.

 

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/patent/US-2020303092-A1

 

A method for reducing frequency dependent energy loss and phase errors from end to end as a function of the frequency of audio-range signals conducted therein including obtaining an electrical wire having a first end and an opposing second end and comprising of an electrically conductive metal with a conductivity between 0 and about 3.2* 106 (ohm-meter)−1 or between 0 and about 5.5% International Annealed Copper Standard (IACS), wherein the electrically conductive metal includes a relative magnetic permeability between 0 and 2, and transmitting audio-range signals from the first end to the second end, wherein the frequency dependent energy loss and phase from the first end to the second end is a function of a frequency of the audio-range signals transmitted therein.