DSJR
Major Contributor
Isn't it a play on 'silver tech' or something? Way over-recommended in the 90's, I suspect, like VDH and their carbon conductor based (spark-plug cable?) cables, they've fitted into audiophile folklore as 'good' wires.
I had a smaller (in the range) 'high end' US made amp for a while. It 'sounded' just fine, but nothing 'wow' about it as my speakers weren't a difficult load for which this brand is renowned at driving with ease. I slipped into the mentality that my perfectly good preamps (a mix of passive and active) weren't good enough and that I should shell out loads of money for a good used high-end preamp 'name' to go with it, to do it justice, despite what I have being as transparent as needs be to the signal passing through. Had I rejoined this particular 'club,' my homemade interconnects wouldn't have been judged good enough, so Transparent Audio would have been my choice there - and then of course the speakers would need 'upgrading' to a Sonus Faber or something.. The current owner of said amp has no issues in this way and said amp does its job securely into his awkward-load speakers and just gets on with it! My current main amp is fine and similar 'sounding' into the 6 ohm-ish minimum speakers I'm using right now, as it doesn't have to try to supply oodles of current.
And so it goes on...
