Does silver speaker wire sound bright?

IMHO, you would have been better off just buying Music Metre Silver. It's 13 AWG, and I got mine for only $175 (a six foot pair). It's not manufactured anymore, but with a little searching, it's not that hard to find..............Anyway, I feel that any speaker cable whose gauge totals less than around 13 is going to have a tendancy toward brightness, except with single ended triode tube amps.

After using AQ LAPIS and DIAMOND - I'll never use copper again- it's a no brainer here. Clearly better (no Pun) Silver sounds so much better in my system especially with tubes....

Definitely go all silver. The miscnception of silver sounding bright is because most so called silver cables are only silver plated on the outside. These cables definitely sound bright. However pure silver cables are more relaxed and liquid sounding than all copper cables. Not all copper cables are bad. I have also used some copper cables that sound very remarkable. The only difference is that pure silver is really liquid sounding. Try the kimber KCAG and also Audio Note Stuff

Some break in time silver cables does reduce the brightness. I noticed it more when I added Goertz Micro Purl silver interconnects than when I added a set of Light Star Audio silver speaker cables. After about 200 hours they sound wonderful together. The silver does give better detail and soundstaging in my system compaired to copper. Good luck.

1.Silver cables do sound bright, lean and harsh fresh out of the box. 2.Silver cables do need at least 2 weeks of continuous break-in. 3.Silver cables, once broken-in, will definitely sound smoother, more transparent, more detailed and neutral compared to any copper cable of the same design. 4.Silver cables will tend to have a lighter but more defined bass. 5.The advantage of silver is that it is a lot more audible in speaker cables than interconnects. 6.Audioquest silver cables are the least colored and mate well with most varieties of electronics and speakers. They are excellent with Thiel, B&W, Snell, Martin Logan and Apogee speakers, just to name a few of the big brands. These unanimous conclusions are based on extensive listening and blind test between myself, my brothers and friends. In fact, we all modified our speakers with silver wirings. If you know how to solder, I would strongly recommend it, but be very careful. Keep playing with your cables and they will sound great.