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March 2010: New "Ultimate Silver Dream SE"
interconnect launched
This uses the same 8-conductor pure silver cabling as the original "Ultimate Silver Dream", which will continue to be available.
The SE version is fitted with superior locking RCA plugs, which can be clamped tightly onto your equipment's RCA sockets for a very secure low-loss connection.
Details here
March 2010: "Digital Dream" demand too high!
We've had to suspend sales of the new Digital Dream cable, because the extrememely high initial demand caused us to run out of some of the necessary raw materials. So our apologies for that, but we intend to resume production around the end of April.
February 2010: Digital cable introduced
In response to many requests, we present the pure silver "Digital Dream" Details here.
February 2010: Web site improved
We've introduced an improved payment interface, with a proper shopping cart system, which will hopefully make shopping with us a better experience. If you find anything that's not working correctly, please email us.
Plus some updated product photos for the RCA Silver Dream cables.
November 2009: Another fab review!
Brilliant new comprehensive review of the Ultimate Silver Dream interconnects, by Amine Slimani at Head-fi.org. Link to the full review here.
October 2009: We're over the moon!
We have just had a highly complementary full 3-page review on the very popular and respected 6moons.com web site - in which reviewer Chris Redmond very favourably compares our "Silver Dream" interconnects to Kimber's £1800+ Select KS-1030 interconnects. Naturally we're very pleased about this. To read the full review, click here
July
2009: Now you can connect
your iPod or laptop to your hi-fi system with pure silver!
Your portable audio devices can make music - prepare to be pleasantly surprised!
July
2009: New "Silver Dream" review:
Matej Isak, editor
and chief reviewer of that wonderful resource for audiophiles,
MonoAndStereo.com , has reviewed our
"Silver Dream" interconnects very favourably.
He was clearly impressed with our high performance-to-cost ratio...
"... fairly priced products with heart and devotion incorporated into them."
"Having a silver interconnect for 220eur (£189) seemed like a fantasy in the past."
"Artisan crafted cables helped restore that mesmerizing journey vividly and with few, or better to say no complaints for the given price."
"Artisan crafted some darn fine and
affordable cables."
Full review
here.
July 2009: Pure Silver Speaker
cables now available
In response to many requests, we're now able to offer speaker cables
Because of the higher levels and voltages involved with driving speakers, the conductors are necessarily thicker and more numerous than those in our interconnects. There's a lot of silver in these babies!
Pure solid 16 AWG (0.6mm) silver conductors, coated in Teflon. Choice of 8 or 16 conductors per speaker. Choice of unterminated, or terminated with spades, or banana plugs. Only available as a custom order (30 day trial does not apply)
Speaker cable price-list and ordering information
June 2009: "Silver Dream" two metre Sennheiser headphone upgrade cable introduced at the introductory price of £149. By removing the weak link that is the stock Sennheiser cable and replacing it with a proper pure silver lead, the performance of the audiophile Sennheiser models is taken into another dimension. Click here for details.
June 2009: I've wired up my whole system with the new upgraded Teflon® leads and we're excited by the results.
The system is revealing greater inner detail across the frequency range, with an even purer, more open top end. Despite experience, hi-fi never fails to amaze me with the magnitude of differences that apparently small changes can make!
June 2009: Upgraded Teflon® tubing.
Regular customers will notice that we've now upgraded our Teflon® tubing to a slightly wider diameter over our whole range of cables (this is not yet shown in the pictures - these will be updated later). By allowing more room around the pure silver conductors, this gives an improvement to the ideal "air dielectric" effect, giving an increased perception of purity to the sound. In high resolution systems, a further layer of inner detail becomes audible. The cushioning effect of a larger air-gap around the conductors also increases isolation from external physical vibrations - which is generally also thought to be good for sound quality. A happy side-effect is that the resulting cables are also slightly thicker and more robust (although the thickness of the silver conductor - which is critical to get right - remains the same). All cables supplied from now on will be the upgraded version.
May 2009: Custom lengths up 1.75 metres and terminations now available.
If you don't see the right option for you, custom lengths are now available up to 1.75 metres. You can also have "Silver Dream" cables terminated with your own plugs - you send us the plugs & we'll fit them to the magical "Silver Dream" cables to your instructions. Email us with your requirements and we'll let you know whether we can do it and what the price would be.
May 2009: "Ultimate Silver Dream" interconnects launched.
Our "cost-no-object" leads are launched at a fraction of the price of other manufacturers' "cost-no-object" leads!
Sporting 8 conductors instead of the 4 used in Silver Dream, this retains all of Silver Dream's virtues, but has a lower overall resistance, taking sound quality up to a new "ultimate" level - hence the name.
May 2009: A lot of good customer feedback is coming in, plus...
David Clark of the online hi-fi magazine Positive Feedback has just written some more on our "Silver Dream" interconnects:
"I just can't get over how wonderful these cables are. They have none of the dreaded 'silver' glare and yet possess all the harmonic 'rightness' silver can bring to the table. These are simply amazingly good for so little cash."
Click here to see David's full write-up (scroll down the page).
May
2009: "Silver Star" interconnects launched, bringing the price of entry into
the exclusive pure silver club to a new level of affordability. To quote the
press release:
"Great news in the current economic slump: the price of entry for audiophiles to the exalted realms of pure silver audiophile interconnect cables has just come down to a new low.
Artisan Silver Cables - who pioneered affordable pure silver cables with their acclaimed “Silver Dream” interconnects - have just introduced a new entry-level interconnect called “Silver Star”. With a claimed 85-90% of the performance of “Silver Dream”, the new “Silver Star” puts ownership of pure silver cables within the reach of almost anyone, with an introductory price of just £99.
In keeping with the name, "Silver Star" offers stellar performance! These leads perform at a level way above their price range. There's an immediate sense of musical "rightness" when you plug them in. The sound is exceptionally even-handed, musical, detailed, transparent & smooth. They will not disappoint - even in high-end systems.”
April
2009: XLR option for "Silver Dream".
From the press release:
"Artisan Silver Cables launch an XLR balanced version of their popular affordable pure silver “Silver Dream” interconnects
Artisan’s pure silver “Silver Dream” RCA interconnects have been selling like hot-cakes. However, many people asked whether the same fabulous quality pure silver cables could be terminated with XLR balanced connectors. It seemed churlish to deny these people their dream cables!
The new leads are terminated with very high quality plugs from the industry standard and world leader Neutrik®. These are in the standard 3-pin arrangement, with a male plug one end and a female on the other - suitable for connecting the increasing number of high-end hi-fi components that use the technically superior balanced connections."
January
2009: Silver Dream interconnects launched.
From the press release:
"Artisan Silver Cables launch pure silver interconnects at affordable prices
Pure silver audiophile interconnect cables have traditionally been the preserve of the ultra high end, typically selling for £500 or more per pair & putting them out of reach for all but the most well-heeled audiophiles.
Artisan Silver Cables have set out to change all that. By bypassing the usual complex distribution networks, with their multiple middle-men, the prices can be kept down very much lower and the benefits of pure silver cables can be enjoyed by a wider audience.
99.99% Pure Silver – the world’s most conductive metal - is sheathed in deliberately slightly loose-fitting Teflon, so that the conductors are partly surrounded by air, which is widely agreed to be one the finest-sounding dielectric materials. They add in heavily silver-plated connectors, silver-rich solder & noise rejecting Litz-weave construction to give ultra-pure and sweet sounding cables."
