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Reviewing the fabulous Silversmith Fidelium Speaker Cables
@daveyf  Thanks for your note. Connecting the Fidelium to both your Jeff Rowland amp and your Sonus Faber speakers will be simple.  You will not need adapters for your amp.  My forthcoming bi-wire adapter will alleviate the need for two sets of ca... 
Reviewing the fabulous Silversmith Fidelium Speaker Cables
@silversmith Have you experimented with interconnect designs? @c_avila1 Thanks for your question. XLR and RCA interconnect cables are in development and should be available next year.  Best Regards,Jeffrey SmithThe Silversmith Audio Group  
Reviewing the fabulous Silversmith Fidelium Speaker Cables
@daveyfI appreciate your interest in the Fidelium. If you are still running theSonus Faber Guarnieri, connecting the Fidelium is fairly simple. Also, in the next month or two, I’ll have a bi-wire adapter available that will provide the same sound ... 
Reviewing the fabulous Silversmith Fidelium Speaker Cables
@ twoleftears,Thanks for your comment.  Your concern about the ease of connection is understandable and fairly common.  Obviously, the connection is a radical departure from the norm but the challenge is very easy to overcome and the sonic benefi... 
How to connect bi-wire speakers
When those engineers and professors discuss waveguides and their implications in audio cables, they usually just show characteristic impedance, LCR filter effect losses, impedance losses, etc. They rarely mention phase effects, group delay, etc, a... 
How to connect bi-wire speakers
As an engineer, I will simply state that the concepts and equations behind my statements can be found in any text on electromagnetic theory, and, surprisingly, are pretty simple. The Director for the Center for Audio Research and Engineering, and ... 
How to connect bi-wire speakers
Hi Edmond,They only way to avoid passing the signal through two sets of binding posts is obviously to use a second set of high quality cables to bi-wire. In the case of Silversmith Audio cables, there is nothing wrong with using Silver cables for ... 
How to connect bi-wire speakers
Briefly, binding posts are one of the worst offenders in terms of audio degradation (thick metal and its affect on the electromagnetic wave as a waveguide). When connecting a bi-wireable speaker with single wire cables, signal must pass through tw... 
How to connect bi-wire speakers
Greetings Edmond,Obviously the connection you described will function, but it will be inferior sonically to connecting both cables to the tweeter terminals. It may have simply been easier to connect the cables the other way because of the way the ... 
How to connect bi-wire speakers
Edmond,The best sound will be achieved by attaching the speaker cables to the tweeter binding posts and connecting the bass posts via the jumper. If you, instead, connect the speaker cables to the bass binding posts, your sound will be noticeably ... 
Recent reviews on Cyberlight IC's
To clarify Downunder's post: The Silversmith Audio line of cables reviewed by Mr. Levi is the Palladium line, which at are a different price point than the Cyberlights. Mr. Levi learned of the Palladium after an Audio Circle sponsored listening se...