Originally Posted by
chipcalzada
So a strange thing happened recently: I was getting a slight metallic sound in the high frequencies which I wasn't happy about, my assumption was that the silver Litz wiring in the series 6 was starting to settle and completely burn in as I was approaching 100 hours of use. The first thing I did was roll warmer sounding tubes into my tube phono pre and while it took a bit of the glare off, I still found it sounding too bright for my taste. The next step was to swap the IC's to an older, warmer sounding one. While it did make it sound warmer, the soundstage closed in quite a bit so I put back the more open albeit brighter sounding IC's.
Stumped, I started making inquiries and researched on what I could replace my tube phono pre with when out of curiosity, I changed the power cable (which has some 4N silver in it) to a copper power cable and 'voila' no more metallic, grating sound. Trumpets didn't assault my eardrums, and listening to JC's A Love Supreme didn't make me wince. I never thought that changing a power cable would have such a marked difference in SQ but in this case, it did. Found out the hard way that too much silver in one's system is no good, to my ears at least.
I also agree with this.....you can have too much silver in I/C and speaker cable etc.
There are some obs........the silver must be of the highest quality and therefore expensive
My experience was that I acquired some Yter speaker cable with great results and the thought that the same make I/C would enhance.
It took a long time to settle but turned out too bright and lost some of it's musicality.
So back to my trusty Cardas GC I/C .........problem solved
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