Interconnect Cables

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"Why would you not continue with Wireworld?" I may continue to use Wireworld. I'll repeat, I'm confident that my components are set and I'm trying to figure out if I need to change my cables. I was told my weakest link were my Wireworld power cords and Shunyata  powers cords were significantly better. I tried Shunyata and Audioquest power cords. I concluded the Wireworld was the best fit to my ears. Now I'm going to try interconnect cables.

I just received an Audioquest Niagara  interconnect cable. I'll post comments in a couple of days.

You guys don't seem to know what is possible with silver and silver alloy wires. Listen to Purist Audio Dominus, Echole and Stage III cables. Yes, silver is difficult to make sound right in certain aspects, but so is copper in other aspects. Word, mostly European word, has it that the current very best copper cables are Tchernov Cable Ultimate.

My experience with Audioquest Truth interconnects and digital cable was that the choice between silver and copper was dependent on where the cable was used. I chose the silver Truth interconnects and the copper Truth digital cable even though I kept hoping the silver would be better. Oh, and Cryo helps silver quite a bit, maybe should be a requirement. Then again most high end cable manufacture employ Cryo routinely, have been for years.

I don't find silver to sound thin or lack bass. Almost every time I've put a silver cable/connector into my system, I've heard what I consider to be an improvement in clarity AND smoothness, as well as improvement in bass. The only place I like all copper is for the power cables for my class D monoblocks. 

I build my own cords, though, and can use whatever gauge of wire i choose. My ICs are built with 24 gauge solid silver.. my guess is that those who find bass to be weak with silver may just be using cables that have smaller diameter conductors. This can be the case since silver is more expensive and has slightly better conductive properties, so cable companies could be using thinner wires to make the cables, reasoning that the better conductivity of silver will make up for a higher gauge relative to copper. But it doesn't.