Getting to Italian specifics, doesn’t Audio Note (at least Kondo) used to use Italian silver for the raw material for their conductor?
Hello, not all silver cables are the same. A good copper material can sound better than a plain silver wire. Often only soft silver wire is used to make jewelry. However, a high-quality silver material sounds very neutral, dynamic, detailed. It shouldn’t just sound like a guide. The dielectric and insulation also affect the sound. Oh, the cross-section of the conductor is crucial. Good silver wire is available from German high-end or Neotech, for example. The German highend website is interesting and informative. Order in quality from poor to excellent. 1. Jewelry Wire 2. PSS 3. LCS 4. MCS or OCC
My interconnects from VooDoo Cable have both OCC copper and OCC silver conductors (each separate, not silver-plated copper). The sound is excellent. . .Over the last 11 years or so I have upgraded nearly everything else and they have let me hear clearly any change and have never been the weakest link.
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Sorry, late to this gourmet party.
Last week I was in Lampedusa, a little island part of Sicily area. I state that I have never tasted such a good spaghetti sauce before: each day cooked on a little boat called Caicco with home made sauce (Pachino tomatoes) and fresh fish (Gambero rosso from Mazara del Vallo or Astice) with a pinch of peperoncino.
Here the proof
For all of you US Sicilian friends!
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I am guessing that split lobster didn’t hurt the sauce.
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We live vicariously through you
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Like a NOS tube in a precious pre, so to speak!
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Luca, I wanna be you!
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I can’t keep up with that. I admit it. I’m transfinancial. A rich man trapped in the body of a poor sow. 
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Darn, that surely looks better than the instant noodle cup soup I had for lunch after golf yesterday. 
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My initial post in this thread was admittedly very aggressive, but just to bring out speculation.
Nowadays it has become very clear to me why silver is simply better - the grain structure is superior in length of grains and composition. And this is why silver/gold alloy is even better to smoothen the gaps, ending in monocrystalline silver as the ultimate conductor.
Siltech is on the right track with their metallurgy but unfortunately they do not offer complex enough geometries to justify the price, for their speaker cabling at least. I don’t see good Vp linearity being achieved with thick twisted conductors. Their interconnects… Might be great.
But @vkennedy61 is not talking about silver as in cable conductors.
He is talking about silver colored gear versus black colored gear.
We try not to make fun of him.
You should seem him when he sees pumpkins! It’s a hoot.
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I can’t put tubes in my newest preamp.
Did I, a tube guy, just say that?
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Silver? Did someone say “silver”?
I was dead asleep and this woke me up like the slap of a nearby lightening strike.
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This thread reminds me of “why a duck?”
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Cause they’re tasty!
Especially when zapped by the slap of a nearby lightning strike.
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I remember lusting after all that glorious gear!
That is one sexy rack!!!
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