Stager Silver Solids Interconnects
By Jeff Brown This review is excerpted from the November 2008
Affordable Audio E-zine at: AffordableAudio.com
jeffbrown@affordableaudio.org
Specifications:
Design:
Unshielded symmetrical pair - Ultra low 11 pF/ft.
Wire:
.999 pure silver 24 ga. (.020" diameter) solid core wire.
Insulator:
Translucent Teflon.
Connectors: Canare F-10 RCA connectors. Machined solid brass center,
Teflon insulator, 24K gold plated contacts, spring strain relief.
Construction: Lead free silver solder at all contacts.
Color coded Polyolefin heat shrink at ends.
Caig ProGold coating applied to silver for lasting anti-tarnish protection,
and to connectors for perfect electrical contact.
Price: $129.00 - 1 Meter Pair ($80.00 per additional meter)
Website: marc.stager.com/silver
When a product is designed correctly and
does everything right, you really don't need
to mess with it much. It seems to me that
should be the way things are supposed to
work, and I love those types of products.
The Stager Silver solids have been built the
same way using the same products by the
same guy for over a decade and they sound
awesome. A question that will go unan-
swered not only in this review but also likely
for the rest of my life I believe is “Why do
companies constantly create new product
lines?” I think the answer is that people
want the latest greatest product, but is it
truly better and at what cost in the long run?
In this article I spend a lot of time talking about an honest sound. I want to preface it with what that means to me. We
all have different expectations and we all have different opinions about what an ideal sound is. I think that a stereo
system’s purpose is to recreate music. Music is something originally created by instruments where they are normally
heard in harmony with other instrumen