Best speaker cables for Thiel CS 3.7

The SR Precision Reference speaker cables I had used silver conductors and I never thought them to sound bright, only very open, delicate & extended on top. Same for Purist.

My latest discovery is Verastarr power cords and interconnects which use pure silver foils vs wire and are the most honest, open, and extended cables I have yet heard, with ultra-realistic, razor quick transient attack, yet impart no glare, brightness, sheen, or sibilance to the sound in my system. Bass is the most realistic of anything I have tried. I plan to try their speaker cables in the near future. Recommend you call Mike Powell at Verastarr. Great guy to work with and very creative/knowledgeable.

i obviously have not tried (not even nearly) every silver cable out there, but based on the experience I do have, I think silver cables get a bad rap on this excessive brightness issue. I suspect that many so-called “silver” cables are actually silver coated copper, which I have found to display an unpleasant upper treble region as well as other undesireable influences on the sound.

As you know, the 5i’s have the metal dome tweeters and are very sensitive to/unforgiving of any brightness upstream. I have definitely heard such from the wrong preamp, amp, and especially inferior digital gear over the years. And, yes, also with many cables, including pure copper in some instances. Stay with SR, Purist, Verastarr, and other manufacturers that extensively design and voice their cables using pure silver and I think you will be rewarded with a degree of air, open-ness and detail beyond copper without the bite that some lesser “silver” cables can have.

Dave

Interesting Dave.  I have tried a lot of speaker cables with my 3.6 and CS 6 Thiels but never silver.  I have tried a silver/copper mix with Kimber 3035 and did not feel like they were a good match.  I may try Verastarr one day but...

My latest preference has been MIT EVO 2’s.  I have both IC and SC.  I have always preferred MIT IC’s over their speaker cables but find these far and away the best MIT SC’s I have had in my system.

Just totally open and transparent, dynamic and clear as a bell.  BTW, where do you use the PC’s?

Hi pops,

Agree that silver/copper is not a good match for Thiels.

A good friend let me try his Verastarr pure silver power cords and ICs in my system. I used the Statement PC on my DAC, the Signature II HC (dual foil) PCs on my preamp and amp, and the regular Signature II on my Aurender. ICs were the Signature II series. Each was placed into my system one at a time, starting with the DAC, then the preamp, then the amp, then the Aurender. The Statement on the DAC vs my current SR Element CTS Digital PC gave the most improvement and each PC incrementally added to the improvement, but when all were in (including the ICs), everything clicked and the result was a naturally holographic, extremely deep and wide soundstage with excellent tonal balance, detail retrieval, and faster/crisper transient response, providing uncanny realism.

The Statement II and Signature II lines have been recently replaced by the Statement III and Signature III models which use a thicker and wider silver foil in the Statement III PCs for furher improved current flow and newly-developed improvements in the ground plane implementation to further lower the noise floor.

Dave

Thanks Dave.  So many options with PC’s but that is my next move when I make one.  I am currently using Wywires on my amps and phono stage and stock on my CJ preamp which comes with a pretty nice cord.  Kubala Sosna Fascination on digital.

Wywires have been the most consistent for me adding nothing except a lower noise floor.

IMO Synergistic Research are some of the best cables for Thiel speakers.I would like to compare them to Audience cables.