Great to see this video, as all of your videos are highly recommended to watch. Thank you for that Greg. Even though I do not own cables from Siltech (I have had the very nice opportunity to listen to some of them multiple times) as a Dutch citizen it makes me a bit proud that such a company from my country is among the very best in the high end audio industry. There are fierce competitors out there but Siltech is for sure one of the leading manufacturers in the world when it comes to cables.
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for the kind words, and for both watching, and writing! I'm hoping to get back to the Netherlands sometime soon, as my previous trips to your part of the world have been so enjoyable, and in a land that is so enchanting!
What characterizes virtually every high-end cable manufacturer? 1. They give their own technical story for how they have solved this or that technical problem. BUT 2. Provide no objective data in the form of measurements that they have actually done so. Even when they claim to have done measurements in their design process, somehow these just aren’t good enough to show publicly. Nor do they show how the measurable differences are audible. 3. Cables are evaluated under sighted conditions, where the listener knows the identities of the cables, which is well known to be perfect stew for bias effects. I believe these , among many other reasons, fully justify the high-level of scepticism many have towards these companies.
I can't disagree with your points overall. While I clearly acknowledge and accept the concept of bias confirmation, I also believe that with some 50 years experience, Especially with such a strong focus on cable design and sonic results, one can observe and differentiation differences much more readily, even when they can see the cables.
I agree with you 100% but I'm sure the intended market are the Billionaires or the clients that are millionaires hundreds of times over,who wouldn't batter an eyelid,and would make that purchase like we buy and icecream cone.
Thanks for the review! Can you please review Townshend F1 Fractal cables sometime? I think their ICs are the best I’ve heard and I wonder how their speaker cables stack up to the Silversmith Fideliums
Wonderful video so much going on here. The cables remind me of a network box that I see on my cable which I have on my system from transparent, which I believe is used to deal with frequency deterioration as it travels through a cable. Thanks for nice video
Hello, again! Thank YOU so much for watching, and taking the time to write. I spent a lot of time, years back now, with MIT and Transparent. I even sold MIT when I was still in the retail side of the Biz! 😉
@@theaudioanalyst this is really cool you spent time with mit and transparent. I like the cable and Philosophy behind it. Does this mean You used to live in Maine?
@@theaudioanalyst Lived in Manhattan for four years. Nice place to experience but living in another area versus a long-term existence in manhattan has its merits
Hello, Gavin. No idea - as yet... But, the loom, speaker cables, ICs, and power cords, are on their way here and I will have my evaluation in my system sometime soon... ;-)
I like a bit of Hifi history and obviously it goes hand in hand with the personalities driving the industry..... A walk around the siltech manufacturing facility seeing actual assembly would make superb content* How about it Greg? *Cable naysayers need not watch.
@@theaudioanalyst A representative will likely be monitoring our enthusiastic comments.... So.. Siltech, how about it? I for one would love to see items like this, items at the highest level of no compromise engineering being created. 🙏🏻
Common sense. If the albums you are listening to were mastered on standard cables, and you believe audiophile cables extract more information than standard cables, where is this information your hearing comming from? Its laughable that albums are mastered with well engineered copper cables costing a few bucks, and that audiophiles claim they are inferiour, if that is the case and these high end cables get more information, then either the budget cables also relay this information, or you imagine it. You do get that if your reference is the information on the recording, and all that timbre, nuance, detail is present, it is there on that recording because the cheap cable did not hinder it. If the cheap cable hinders it, it can't be on the recording, so you cannot be hearing what you claim. You can have one or the other not both. For you to hear such nonsense in a high end cable means the studio cable must have just been as good otherwise what your hearing would not be present on the recording, if your claiming the studio cables is less capable than the audiophile cable, then your saying the information your claiming to hear cannot be on the recording.
The only thing laughable here is your complete ignorance on the matter. I’m surprised that you aren’t embarrassed to reveal publicly just how little you understand about it… The source, in this case, the final LP pressing being played back on our turntable, is what it is, regardless of what cables - or whatever other components and electronics for that matter - were used to master, cut, and press it. NOTHING after it is stamped and on your turntable can improve upon its best possible sound… But what you don’t understand is that it is the process of extracting everything that is cut into that LP that makes the difference. Consider birdwatching a Robin in a tree in your backyard with DIFFERENT binoculars, an analogy to playing back the same LP with different cabling - or any component for that matter. Watching that bird using a pair of $40 TASCO 7x35 binoculars will allow you to readily see more than your bare eyes, and to see that it IS a Robin, revealing much of its individual detail, like its individual characteristics and plumage features… Moving to a set of $250 Bushnell Marine 7x50 Illumin Compass Binoculars, a very common high-quality set of birding binoculars, with considerably more attention paid to the quality of the glass and grinding of the lenses, tighter tolerances in assembly and interaction, and with the use of chemical coating on the lenses to reduce glare and lower the light lost through transmission, will allow you to see more relevant differences in EVERYTHING about that very same Robin, offering both a brighter and sharper image, with a better ability to express a wider, more faithful range of color hues and differences in patterning, and more clearly exposing bill, eye, and head features, etc. Yet, switching to a $10,000 pair of Zeiss 20x60 binoculars, which maximize EVERY CONSIDERATION in the construction of a fine set of optical binoculars will advance all those characteristics further yet… Not only will they offer greater magnification, but they also offer an enhanced ability to more clearly render color variation, feather patterns, and every possible detail about the Robin under examination. While the Robbin (our LP) NEVER changed, our ability to have a clearer, more faithful representation of it CAN be shown to be improved by changing the quality of the binoculars (cables) used to view (listen to) it. You really shouldn’t speak out on matters of which you have no understanding…
Stunning sound & cables ❤❤❤❤❤
Great to see this video, as all of your videos are highly recommended to watch. Thank you for that Greg. Even though I do not own cables from Siltech (I have had the very nice opportunity to listen to some of them multiple times) as a Dutch citizen it makes me a bit proud that such a company from my country is among the very best in the high end audio industry. There are fierce competitors out there but Siltech is for sure one of the leading manufacturers in the world when it comes to cables.
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for the kind words, and for both watching, and writing! I'm hoping to get back to the Netherlands sometime soon, as my previous trips to your part of the world have been so enjoyable, and in a land that is so enchanting!
What characterizes virtually every high-end cable manufacturer?
1. They give their own technical story for how they have solved this or that technical problem.
BUT
2. Provide no objective data in the form of measurements that they have actually done so. Even when they claim to have done measurements in their design process, somehow these just aren’t good enough to show publicly. Nor do they show how the measurable differences are audible.
3. Cables are evaluated under sighted conditions, where the listener knows the identities of the cables, which is well known to be perfect stew for bias effects.
I believe these , among many other reasons, fully justify the high-level of scepticism many have towards these companies.
I can't disagree with your points overall. While I clearly acknowledge and accept the concept of bias confirmation, I also believe that with some 50 years experience, Especially with such a strong focus on cable design and sonic results, one can observe and differentiation differences much more readily, even when they can see the cables.
silversmithaudio.com/content/CableTheory/EssexEchoSummary.pdf
I agree with you 100% but I'm sure the intended market are the Billionaires or the clients that are millionaires hundreds of times over,who wouldn't batter an eyelid,and would make that purchase like we buy and icecream cone.
Thanks for the review! Can you please review Townshend F1 Fractal cables sometime? I think their ICs are the best I’ve heard and I wonder how their speaker cables stack up to the Silversmith Fideliums
Wonderful video so much going on here. The cables remind me of a network box that I see on my cable which I have on my system from transparent, which I believe is used to deal with frequency deterioration as it travels through a cable. Thanks for nice video
Hello, again! Thank YOU so much for watching, and taking the time to write. I spent a lot of time, years back now, with MIT and Transparent. I even sold MIT when I was still in the retail side of the Biz! 😉
@@theaudioanalyst this is really cool you spent time with mit and transparent. I like the cable and Philosophy behind it. Does this mean You used to live in Maine?
@@iampuzzleman282 LOL, sadly, no. But, I am a New Yorker by birth... Does that get me any points? 😋
@@theaudioanalyst Lived in Manhattan for four years. Nice place to experience but living in another area versus a long-term existence in manhattan has its merits
..hey Greg how do they compare with your Fideliums?
Hello, Gavin. No idea - as yet... But, the loom, speaker cables, ICs, and power cords, are on their way here and I will have my evaluation in my system sometime soon... ;-)
Yaaay,
First one to post a 👍!
$115,000 for an IC? My lord.
I clearly hear and understand your incredulity…
I like a bit of Hifi history and obviously it goes hand in hand with the personalities driving the industry..... A walk around the siltech manufacturing facility seeing actual assembly would make superb content*
How about it Greg?
*Cable naysayers need not watch.
LOL. Buddy, just as soon as you convince them to fly me in to cover their factory and processes, I'm there! 😉
@@theaudioanalyst
A representative will likely be monitoring our enthusiastic comments.... So.. Siltech, how about it?
I for one would love to see items like this, items at the highest level of no compromise engineering being created. 🙏🏻
@@marcus1970 😉
Common sense.
If the albums you are listening to were mastered on standard cables, and you believe audiophile cables extract more information than standard cables, where is this information your hearing comming from?
Its laughable that albums are mastered with well engineered copper cables costing a few bucks, and that audiophiles claim they are inferiour, if that is the case and these high end cables get more information, then either the budget cables also relay this information, or you imagine it.
You do get that if your reference is the information on the recording, and all that timbre, nuance, detail is present, it is there on that recording because the cheap cable did not hinder it. If the cheap cable hinders it, it can't be on the recording, so you cannot be hearing what you claim.
You can have one or the other not both. For you to hear such nonsense in a high end cable means the studio cable must have just been as good otherwise what your hearing would not be present on the recording, if your claiming the studio cables is less capable than the audiophile cable, then your saying the information your claiming to hear cannot be on the recording.
The only thing laughable here is your complete ignorance on the matter. I’m surprised that you aren’t embarrassed to reveal publicly just how little you understand about it…
The source, in this case, the final LP pressing being played back on our turntable, is what it is, regardless of what cables - or whatever other components and electronics for that matter - were used to master, cut, and press it. NOTHING after it is stamped and on your turntable can improve upon its best possible sound…
But what you don’t understand is that it is the process of extracting everything that is cut into that LP that makes the difference.
Consider birdwatching a Robin in a tree in your backyard with DIFFERENT binoculars, an analogy to playing back the same LP with different cabling - or any component for that matter.
Watching that bird using a pair of $40 TASCO 7x35 binoculars will allow you to readily see more than your bare eyes, and to see that it IS a Robin, revealing much of its individual detail, like its individual characteristics and plumage features…
Moving to a set of $250 Bushnell Marine 7x50 Illumin Compass Binoculars, a very common high-quality set of birding binoculars, with considerably more attention paid to the quality of the glass and grinding of the lenses, tighter tolerances in assembly and interaction, and with the use of chemical coating on the lenses to reduce glare and lower the light lost through transmission, will allow you to see more relevant differences in EVERYTHING about that very same Robin, offering both a brighter and sharper image, with a better ability to express a wider, more faithful range of color hues and differences in patterning, and more clearly exposing bill, eye, and head features, etc.
Yet, switching to a $10,000 pair of Zeiss 20x60 binoculars, which maximize EVERY CONSIDERATION in the construction of a fine set of optical binoculars will advance all those characteristics further yet… Not only will they offer greater magnification, but they also offer an enhanced ability to more clearly render color variation, feather patterns, and every possible detail about the Robin under examination.
While the Robbin (our LP) NEVER changed, our ability to have a clearer, more faithful representation of it CAN be shown to be improved by changing the quality of the binoculars (cables) used to view (listen to) it.
You really shouldn’t speak out on matters of which you have no understanding…
You deserve as many likes as the cost of all them cables combined👍👏
@@johnbravo7542 LOL... Thank you so much! ☺