In Reply to: Alpha-Core TQ1 ICs and AG1 speaker Cable posted by Jack G on August 16, 1999 at 05:32:23:
I agree with most of your findings - this is how "good" silver stuff sounds. Fast, immediate, ultra-silent, high resolution, neutral, microdynamically and macrodynamically supple with elastic bass articulation and deep extension. They are the tweakoid favorite because anything you do to your system will always be easily audible. There is no brightness and no glare. I dont find silver plump sounding in the upper bass however. There is that subtle shiny sound that annoys Nigel (and me) - I believe this is due to the cable revealing certain tubes' deficiencies (AND digital sound! - I haven't heard this with analog!), as well as a result of silver cable near a metallic surface, or lying on the concrete floor. I hear this shiny sound with my GE 6550A but not with Svet 6550C. I think it is time you roll tubes, and try cable lifting again. :) Oh, I agree that mixing copper and silver cables is not a good idea too.Note also that since your speaker position and tweaks were optimized for your Tara cables, you can even squeeze some more from silver by retuning your system around it (like I did). You will find out that you may need more (or less) speaker toe in, or wider speaker to speaker distance with silver stuff to get the same fullness and body from copper while retaining the silver advantage.
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