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In my room, the Silverline Sonata-III speakers, when hooked up with silver cables (Pure Note Cerulean or silver/palladium Alluvion), sound very clean, open, dynamic and articulate, but have a somewhat light-weighted bass. With copper cables (e.g., Silverline's "Audio Conductor" biwire cables), bass is deep at the expense of midrange clarity. Is it a common trait of silver vs. copper cables or Sonatas just prefer copper cables?
I have silverline boleros and all silver cables (audio note interconnects and ridge street speaker cables) and have no issues with bass.
Again, depends on synergy with other components.
I would just experiment with different cables, regardless of whether it's silver, copper or some kind of alloy. Look at Acoustic Zen, for instance - I had Satori Shotgun (biwire), that were pretty balanced, and not terribly expensive.
Just as side note - I tried Pure Note Enhanced Paragon interconnects several years ago, and wasn't impressed - somewhat harsh and bright, were easily bettered by some stuff from NBS, Virtual Dynamics, HMS and DCCA (all somewhat more expensive though).
lighter bass. Some silver I've tried are quite bright, but some are very smooth and mellow. None of the silvers I've used have the bass body of large dia. copper. I use Clear Day dual shotgun silver (sold on A-gon) on my biwired mids and high- very detailed, yet smoooooth, and very heavy guage OFC copper on my woofers. For me the best of both worlds.
Probably has as much to do with the construction of the cable itself as opposed to the metals involved, although silver does have a rep for being brighter and copper darker in tone. FWIW some of the brightest cable I've had in my system, which would correspond to your description of silver with your Silverlines, was copper. And the signature of that cable pretty much applied to most of the other models made by that manufacturer.
If you feel up to an experiment, try wiring the copper based cable to the woofer and the silver cable up to the mid range/tweeter and see if that does anything for you.
It also depends on amplifier. When I swapped the amp, I heard a deep a tuneful bass with Pure Note Alluvion cables, not to mention crystal clear transparency and magical midrange!
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