http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/psc/1.html I'm sure it sounds divine, as well it might.
Sounds like an interesting idea. It's a shame that it had to come to fruition at a time when silver is selling at its all time price peak.
After reading the 6moons articles I had the following thoughts:
1) For most of us, $42K for a cable is an insane amount of money. For those who can afford it, God bless, I'm sure you will enjoy them and I wish you well. But I can assure you that there won't be any $42k cables in my mancave anytime soon (unless of course that dollar and a dream thing works out for me.
) What would be nice though is if they could get some more use out of that new CNC machine by making a similar type cable out of copper that would hopefully be a bit more within the budget of the average audiophile. (That of course is assuming that a copper based design still sounds good, which may or may not be the case.)
2) While the review uses all kinds of superlatives when talking about the SQ of the cables it never says as compared to what. I would like to know what his starting point is. Saying that something is way better than an Audioquest King Cobra is one thing, saying that it is way better than a JPS Labs Aluminata is a whole other ballgame.
3) Maybe it is the fact that is is not engineering, but simplified techno-marketing speak, but I was really bothered by the way they kept going on in the article about how the extra detail in the cable was due to its lowered resistance allowing more of the details to come through. To me this just doesn't seem to make sense. Pure resistance is linear with respect to frequency, so while a higher resistance might attenuate a signal more, to would not distort it as the information should be exactly the same, just at a slightly lower level (which can easily be compensated for with preamp gain adjustments.) Now if the combination of the cable geometry and the materials lowers the capacitive and inductive losses in the cable that is a very good thing since neither of them is linear with respect to frequency and therefore they both cause signal distortions. Any of our other engineering types have any thoughts on this?
That said, while I may be an engineer at work, I am an audiophile and a consumer at home. If something sounds good, I don't have to understand how and why it does, I'm just happy that somebody else took the time to figure it out and I can reap the benefits and enjoy the product.