Silversmith Audio Celebrates with Fidelium
Previous Silversmith Audio cables used pure silver or palladium conductors. Fidelium is an alloy that, according to Jeff Smith, is "unique in the audio industry. Nothing resembling its content nor approaching its transmission accuracy has ever been used before, and it’s the subject of a pending patent." Smith doesn't offer much more, except that Fidelium has "33 times superior skin-effect characteristics over copper or silver." Like previous Silversmith speaker cables, Fidelium cables are thin ribbons whose spade connectors are integral with the cable, not separate added parts. Regarding the performance upgrade, Smith offers, "Knowing the conductor size, geometry, and material of any cable, and using parameters of electromagnetic wave equations, I can create a figure of merit (FOM) that describes a cable’s performance with respect to skin-effect distortions. This FOM value shows that my old Palladium cable is 25 times better than my old Silver cable, and that the Fidelium cable is 3.3 times or 330% better than the Palladium." Currently, only Fidelium speaker cables are available,
but Smith is working on both balanced and single-ended interconnects, separate connectors,
and speaker jumpers, all using the Fidelium alloy. |
eff Smith, the founder
and principal of Silversmith Audio, is both a veteran of the audio industry, having
started Silversmith in 2000, and a US veteran, as a retired Navy officer. His latest
speaker cable, Fidelium (from $795 for a four-foot pair to $1395 for a ten-foot pair),
builds on his earlier designs while retaining their use of advanced conductors. Fidelium
also celebrates Silversmith Audio's twenty years in business while offering a performance
increase and price drop over the company's previous top cable.