Anyone use gold wire interconnects like Kool Cables ( KCI )

[Wardsweb]

I presently run some Nordost silver interconnects but was looking at

the Silkworm cables on Koolcables.com. Our last audio meet in Austin

was held at the owners house who was running a Classe amp with gold

wire cables. I must admit it sounded really good. So, anyone here have

any exprience with gold wire interconnects?

[Erik Mandaville]

I've made my own 3 foot lengths of pure silver wire ICs, insulated with clear Teflon tubing, and they sounded okay, though not much different from anything else I had in the same length. When one considers the combined amount of general-purpose hookup wire in one's components (except for those deep-pocket examples that may also be wired with pure silver/Teflon), along with the often hundreds of feet of copper in speaker crossover inductors, the comparatively shorter lengths of wire between components, at least in my experience, hasn't resulted in the ubiquitous "jaw-dropping" improvements I have read about. We all hear differently, however, and maybe you stumbled on something that for you is an obvious and special improvement. What was the cost of those cables?

I also used much longer lengths of silver-plated copper/Teflon for speaker cable with our Lowthers, and that sounded too bright to me. Nope, no ICs or speaker wire of gold. Was it really that different from copper? In what way? What purity of gold, or was it gold plated with a different base metal?

Erik

[jbsl]

Sounds expensive!! is expensive

Silkworm set - one meter in length $899

Each additional half meter $300

If you have the money to try these cables then give them a try.

[UFObuster]

Let the buyer beware:

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