That’s crazy talk, right there; plain crazy, I tell ya’. 
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I had a set of these in my system for about a year, between PrimaLuna amplifiers and Golden Ear Triton 2+ speakers. In my system they performed as the reviews have stated. I ultimately sold them on not because of the sound but because of the ergonomics. Despite appearances they are not particularly fragile or crease-prone if you treat them with a modicum of care. Nor were they particularly difficult to attach to binding posts. They are, however, a pain to manage if you want to run them off the floor and apart, and at the same time want any sort of tidy appearance. That probably sounds a bit picky, but my system is in a room that is used for other things as well as listening. Anyway, if you can deal with how they look they are well worth an audition.
JohnK
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(As the Shawn Colvin song says)
But Maybe I’m crazy
Maybe you’re crazy
Maybe we’re crazy
Probably
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Probably.
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Would not one need to add two resistors to the cable/speaker circuit to properly represent the resistance of the cables? Otherwise one would have one leg at ~ 1.8 ohms and the other at ~0.1 ohms; this would seem to be equivalent to changing only the + or - side of the cable rather than the pair of wires in the cable.
Well there is certainly an aspect to these Fidelium cables that gives way to suspicion, but I don’t also believe that so many people are lying or overstating the sound quality.
Just makes me wonder, how, why? A proprietary alloy with a very simple ultra-flat geometry, it sounds kind of like marketed magic when I read about it but apparently sounds good in people’s systems. Interesting it is.
How do you know most audiophiles don’t have treated rooms?
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How come non of the reviews pointed out any of these issues? These are the people actually heard or owned them for sometime.
There are, quite surprisingly, more than normal positive reviews about this one cable online. I know professional reviewers usually do not trash a new product, but one could tell from their wording if they really like the products, and this is one of them.
When I compare cables, the attributes such as image depth, midrange balance, and high and low details are the main focuses in deciding good ones from ordinary, and I am an amateur. So, I really doubt the pros are easily fooled, and they have reviewed way more products than you, I am sure. I do not think you heard of it, so your assumption carries little weight, frankly.
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It is possible that you’re the only one that got it right, but more likely you’re the only one got it wrong in this universe; from feedbacks from others here as well as from reviews I saw elsewhere.
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I also realized you “know” you got it right. Although I don’t think you are able to change too many minds here, including mine. So I’m out and may find some high-resistance cables to try in a later date.
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Quick A/B? Yet, you said you never heard them…
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You set out your views quite clearly here:
The reason why people don’t spend $4,000 on GIK is more likely not that they are unaware of the importance of room acoustics, but because they live in nice homes that would be ruined by a load of acoustic panels.
My experience is:
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I spent $400 on two GIK panels that my wife almost ripped off the wall before I told her I could get a full refund if she didn’t put them in the trash, which I did.
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I assume you would consider me an audiophile, and I do own a UMIK microphone.
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If I put a picture of my listening room on Audiogon you would not see any acoustic panelling and might rush to judgement, but then you would not know about the acoustic materials used to line the walls and ceiling behind the wallpaper or the acoustic specification of the glass.
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I hate subwoofers: they are ugly and more trouble than they are worth and I don’t want 25hz bouncing around my house. You might need that deep bass to operate a recording studio, but not in my house. No thanks.
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My system has programmable DSP room correction software, but I don’t have the need to use it. My retail audio dealer set up my speakers and I couldn’t be happier.
I use another brand of flat cables, which have been in production for over 40 years. Their main claims to fame are extremely low inductance (0.002uH) and immunity to external noise. They also disappear nicely under rugs.
p.s. My wife had the same negative reaction to D&D 8c as she did to GIK panels.
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That’s as silly as saying “assume you are not married …”. There is no subwoofer visually acceptable in my house. I chose speakers that give a bass response sufficient for the music I like listening to. What I hate most is the physical sensation of subwoofers moving air.
Wrong again. Isolda Speaker Cables - www.townshendaudio.com
Here’s some reading for you, and there’s a white paper with lots of technical stuff for you to chew on, and I won’t comment other than to say that your criticism has been made before. All I know, I’ve used them for years and have never had any thoughts about changing them.
https://www.the-ear.net/how-to/cable-geometry-investigated
And proof that impedance does make a difference !!!
Your knowledge base is amazing! Can we talk you into recommending some speaker, interconnect and maybe power cable that you have found to be well designed and built?
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Vigorous discussion is fair game. 
Just stay way from name calling and condescension. It is possible Steven is being dishonest, but more likely his estimate of time is off.
One thing I find fascinating about subwoofers is how they increase ambiance retrieval even with a solo higher frequency instrument such as violin or a mezzo voice. Magic.
And at least two are needed to minimize dips/valleys in bass response.
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I’ll take a purpose built room without subwoofers, even multiple subwoofers don’t integrate very well with my speakers, maybe they would with some silversmith audio fidelium cables.
I have had good luck integrating subs in my untreated room. I can’t tell when they are on but definitely can tell when they are off if that makes sense. I would say ambience addition is a good term to explain the difference.
Now my son is a bass head so he has them playing loud but his choice of music is mostly electronic and rap which both use a large bass presence.
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Jimmy Hughes recommended Isolda cables to me about 10 years ago and he told me he’d been using them for about 25 years. Max told me he’d been making speaker cables since the 1980s.
I’ve used a subwoofer before and decided to manage without. I don’t have major bass notes to fix - because I have a UMIX microphone and a laptop to use it with and have checked. Besides, in its previous location I had an audible node at 80-90 hz and a subwoofer and now the response is audibly flatter.
From what I understand, once you put in subwoofers you have to get into quite heavy room treatment and possibly DSP, which might be fine in a recording studio or listening room where aesthetics are not an issue, but in my listening room aesthetics are a big issue and my original point was that for many consumer audio users aesthetics probably are a major issue.
I agree with @CinDyment that “there is no perfection in 2 channel audio, just a balance of trade-offs”. Otherwise, perhaps he should be a little less presumptuous about what people do or don’t know about their room acoustics from looking at Audiogon pictures. For example, who knows what DSP is being employed.
My speakers don’t have much excursion.