I tried the 4.0s because I had other (old) silver cables and liked the sound. Simply put, I think these cables are one of the best values in audio. So far I only use one 4.0 between CDP and preamp. The evidence that supports the transparency and neutrality of the cable is that every time I change something in the audio chain (speaker, amp, preamp, etc.) I hear a MAJOR change in sound. If I hadn't changed these components, I might attribute some of the sound to the cable. AS it is, I can only say that the sound is always extended but not bright and very detailed.

I'm demo'ing a set of Totem Arrows right now (on the final quest for a set of speakers) in my system:
Bryston B-60R integrated amp
Rotel 971 cd player
Silver Audio Silver Bullet 4.0
- CD Player -> Integrated
- Integrated Pre-Out -> Main In (custom length about 5")
Totem Arrow (on demo - have yet to find my speakers)

The gear above is now about a month old - nicely matched system!

While I was listening to the awesome Totem Arrows at home, I noticed that they are just TOO bright in the very upper end. Very sharp upper end, almost nose bleedingly sharp. Too bright for me to live with, however, I have to note here that these speakers are truely amazing for their imagery - soundstaging and their base performance. The soundstage is HUGE, and the base is very fast and solid. I wanted to like these speakers so much, I thought perhaps I could tone down the speakers with "mellow" interconnects. So I borrowed a pair of Cardas Cross from a friend. I replaced the Silver Bullets from my CD player to my integrated (since I only had 1 pair of Cross') and left the Silver Bullets in my pre-out/main-in.

What a difference in sound! Right away, I could tell the system lost it's focus. The bass wasn't nearly as tight, the mid's + highs lost their detail and precision. I think the Cardas Cross are twice the price of the Silver Bullets. I was shocked at the difference in sound quality between the two.

I'm not going to downgrade my interconnects and sacrifice the over all sound quality (bass tightness, mid-high detail, over all focus) to accomodate (they really are an amazing speaker for soundstage/imagery and base) a harshly bright set of speakers. The fact that I considered this should really point out just how amazing the Totem Arrows are, the only thing in my system/room that wasn't right was the brightness of the tweeters

The Silver Audio Silver Bullet 4.0 interconnects are well worth the money.

Along with the silver symphony 32's one of the top five i've ever heard or can't here. I've reviewed almost everything .

Open air detail

Delicate handling requirements

I had my doubts about the Monster "reference" interconnects I was using so I wanted to try silver cables. First, I tried the Kimber Silver Streaks which use a silver center conductor with copper on the return wires (like a KCAG lite). Wow, what a difference they made over the Monster. The bass was fuller and the high end came alive. Much more detail, imaging, fuller sound stage and improved overall clarity. Now the instruments themselves joined in the sounds. I could hear newly discovered detail. Fingers on the strings, drum sticks on wood blocks that sounded like different types of wood. Cymbals became metal instead of a nondescript type of a ring sound. Breaths appeared between passages, some bell sounds revealed that they were really multiple bells. Much of my recorded music, I learned, needed to revisited. The Monster cables were history. Now, I read about these Silver Bullets and wished to give them a try. I called Silver Audio Company (formerly DLin)and spoke to Max, the owner of that company. I explained I wanted to audition his 4.0's against the Kimber Silver Streaks and wanted to be able to return them for a full refund if need be. "No problem" he said. He was gracious, very helpful and happy to answer my questions. To my surprise, he personally delivered the cables to my office in only a couple of days! (My office is in San Diego where his company office is located.) Now that is pretty impressive personal service! Still, the A/B audition awaited and I did not want to be biased by the excellent customer service and relations I felt this company provided. I bought the Kimber cables locally with the same return privilege. I picked about 6 CD's and had at it. Three hours later I was left dazed. There were differences but not the hit you over the head ones. Both cables sounded great. Both had excellent detail, imaging and clarity. Both had a fuller low end. Both had identical termination connectors. I looked for differences. Well, the Silver Bullets were silver in all the wires. They also had a nice outer sheath and came with gloves for careful handling. Yeah, so what. What about the sound? I had to get serious. After all, it's the sound not the fluff or esoteric product descriptions I will be hearing. I broke out my trusty Dire Straits (full digital recording) "Brothers in Arms" and Phillip Glass "Songs for Liquid Days" for the final test. The differences, while not very significant, nevertheless became apparent. The Kimber had a little more detail and high end extension (bright?) but sounded a little edgy or cutting on some parts. The 4.0's sounded smoother, more fluid but lacked some of that extra detail. Vocals with the Kimbers sounded just a little bit on the bright side along with picking up some undiscovered detail around the voices. The 4.0's softened up the voices but lost just a slight bit of that additional detail. The voices, bells , cymbals etc. nevertheless sounded nicer and smoother with the 4.0's. No doubt about it. While I lament losing that extra tiny bit of detail given by the Kimbers, it's O.K. with me since that tiny extra detail had a price of over-extending the high end in enough places to be noticed. Some might say you can never be too thin, too rich or hear too much detail. In this case, however, too much detail came at a price affecting and sometimes detracting from the quality of the whole sound. I kept the Silver Bullet 4.0's but, if they did not exist, I could be real happy with the Kimbers. The around $280.00 for a pair of 1.5 meter cables was money well spent but I believe that this is probably at or even past the point of diminishing returns on price/performance.

Stereo setup:

Amp: Sunfire Cinema Grand
Preamp: Denon AVP8000
Speakers: Paradigm Studio 100v2 (bi-wired 8TC)
Subwoofer: Velodyne F18RII (sub was turned off to isolate cables for the test)
Speaker wires: Kimber 8TC
CD source: Sony DVP-S7000

HT setup, add:

Center speaker: Paradigm CC450 (bi-wired 8TC)
Rear speakers : NHT Super One's (with basic twin lead wire)

Similar Products Used:

Monster Cable Reference 2, KImber Silver Streak

Products reviewed: DLin Silver Bullet 4.0 interconnects -
1 one metre and 2 two metre pairs
DLin Silver Symhony 48s speaker cables

System:
Sonic Frontiers Anthem system with PSB speakers
Pre 1L preamp
2 Amp1 power amps - vertically bi-amped
CD1 cd player
PSB Stratus Gold speakers

All interconnects are DLin Silver Bullet 4.0
1 m between CD and Preamp
2 m between Preamp and the two Amps

Speaker Cables are custom split by D Lin Audio so that there are 4 connectors. Two for the mid/tweeter and two for the woofer. With 48 silver conductors per pair, this means that 12 conductors are used for each terminated end.

I have now had the D Lin silvers in my system for about 4 months. I wished to spend some time with them in order to get a long term impression of the cables and their sound before coming to a conclusion. First impressions are not always correct.

The most immediate "sound" of these interconnects is their transparency. From a listener's point of view, it is quite a revelation to hear the true sound of various components of your own system for the first time. There was inner detail and nuances from my system never before heard even with other cables such as Cardas Cross and MIT Tube Terminators. I had wished to purchased these cables locally (where I purchased the system) but could not justify their veiled and colored performance for their price. To get similar performance from the wires of these other respected companies would require going to their premium lines.

The highs were wonderfully sweet, fast and grain free (at least as grain free as you will get with HDCD's - I can't wait to introduce a turntable to my system). They were not recessed like the Cardas Cross or muffled from the MIT Tube Terminators - the highs on the D Lin system was completely neutral and natural sounding. Clearly, all the high freq info was presented without being forward or intrusive, a character that cheap cables seem to exagerate.

The lows were clearly transfered so that the mild tube like sound of the Amp1's were clearly audible and coherent. They weren't soft and wallowly like the Cardas Cross.

The mid's was where the silver's were really impressive. The sound suddenly became "alive" because the presentation was so neutral, transparent and detailed. I can't wait to get a single ended amp into this system. Again, the Cardas Cross did the worst in this area as it's mid was overly warm and thick sounding. Because of the cables transparency, I have been able to successfully retube the Anthem gear with a wonderful increase in sweetness and create a life like warm tubey sound that is incredibly seductive. This was not possible without the help of Kevin Deal of Upscale Audio (see the Soundstage site).

Overall a bargain high end set of interconnect and speaker cables. My nod goes to Max Kreifeldt for creating such a wonderful price / performance ratio product. Now to that turntable...

I am at a loss for words to describe the Silver Audio Silver Bullets 4.0. My reference system consist of a Conrad Johnson PV10a preamp, CJ Premier 11a, Classe cdp5, and the PSB Stratus golds. All wired with Kimber PBJ throughout and spreaker cables are Kimbet 8tc. I had always been dissatisied with my sounstage which is what led me to audition intercoonects. I should also add that I was always suspicious of hearing any difference in different interconnects. Wellfolks let me tell you there is a major difference in sound.
I also asked the Cable company to send me Kimber Hero, Kimber Silver streak, and the Alpha Goere Tourmaline and Triode Quartz to make comparisions to the Silver Audio Bullets.I auditioned the Silver Audio first into my system and I immediately heard a huge difference in soundstage and depth. Transparency increased tremendously. In listening to classical recordings I noticed an immediate improvement of actually hearing individual sections of the orchestra.

The spacing of instruments and voicing of the orchestra was remarkable. On Analogue Productions recording of Gene Ammons Gently Jug I heard Gene Ammons stade left behing the speaker in the corner, well behind the speaker, Ray Barreto congas were stage left outside of the plane of the speaker and two feet in front and the piano stage right, bass dead center. I never heard anything quite like this 3d imaging before on my system. On vocal recordings I heard palabiltiy and enormous stage depth.

When the cables from the cable company arrived I was anxious to see if the Kimber or Alph Goertz could improve upon the Silver Audio. First up I switched the Goertz in for the Silver Audio and what I heard was graim all over the midrange and the stage diminished in both size and height. I then swapped them for the Hero and Silver Streak combo which also had diminished sound stage and transparency compared to the Silver Audio. I kept going back to the Silver Audio and then I did what most people would do, I called Max and purchased them.

I should also note that the Silver Audio cable is a four conductor solid silver with silver connectors all covered with a mesh over to make them an attractive Cable. I also did have one problem with the cable mesh shredding and one of the cables wasnt soldered to the connector. I dfont know if I caused this problem by consistently swapping the interconnects. I called Max and what a true gemtlemen he immediately arranged for a new pair to be shipped and paid for return postage on the defective pair. He also advised me that there is a lifetime warranty on his cables and generous trade in allowance for higher models. Max has always been responsive and returns Emails or phone calls in a prompt and efficient matter. He is genuine, sincere and a pleasure to deal with. I cant recommend these cables more highly. Plain and simple these are the best interconnects ever auditioned in my system An extrodinary high end value at $225.00 meter and I think if these are auditined by the mainstrea. publications a strong Class A rating anf probably unequalled at any price. I urge anyone who wants to transform their system to give them a listen. Im sure you will buy them as I did. A new shinning star has risen.

Detailed and smooth across the audio frequency range.

A little thin in the lower bass (as compared to other interconnects).

I purchased a pair of the Silver Bullet 4's after auditioning them for several weeks. During my audition, I compared them to the Jet Streams and Kimber Hero, and after purchasing them, to the Kimber KCAG. In the final analysis I would have to say that the KCAG is the "best of the bunch." However, given that the KCAG costs more than $100 more for a 0.5 meter pair, and more than $250 more for a meter pair, I think that the Silver Bullets are a remarkable product for the price. The Jet Streams (in my opinion) match the KCAG in terms of bass extension and bass definition, but they also cost approximately the same in the one meter length and are more expensive in the 0.5 meter length (although they have a more expensive termination). In the final analysis, I would recommend that you audition the Silver Bullets (or even the Jet Streams) if you are considering silver wire (which I think is superior to copper in its ability to reveal detail). As others have said, Max is a pleasure to do business with.

Similar Products Used:

Kimber KCAG, Silver Audio Jet Stream, Kimber Hero

Clarity, transparency and detail

Not very rugged

Straight Wire Rhapsody - good balance but a bit veiled
Kimber Silver streak - good detail but dry almost hoarse
AQ Turquoise - good detail but too bright on my system

Silver Bullet 4.0 - good detail, very delicate sound, good balance, lots of "air" around instruments

Pricey but I'm very happy with it

Similar Products Used:

Straightwire Rhapsody II, Kimber Silver Streak, AQ Turquoise

Great value. Impeccable sound.

Not much to add to previous reviews. These cables do the job. The only A-B test I did was with my AQ Turquoise--improvement over these, especially in the high frequences is obvious. These cables extend the sonic range of my CD player, but without any glare or harshness. This is quite a feat, seeing as how the Bryston B60 is known to be unforgiving of poor incoming signals. My CD player is a Cambridge Audio D500--also great sound for the money, though not terribly detailed and lacking in attack compared to more expensive players. Anyway, the bottom line for me is that the Silver Bullets are much less expensive than any other all silver cable out there, and the company is a pleasure to do business with. And as far as I can tell, the Silver Bullets do very little to the signals it is transferring, which is just what you want from a cable. Check out silveraudio.com for useful (maybe) technical details.

Simply put, the Silver Bullet 4.0s are are superb product. These replaced a pair of Straightwire Encore interconnects which I had previously thought were quite good. The improvement in overall sound quality was immediately apparent after installing the Silver Bullets, which is all the more remarkable considering that the cables had not been broken in. Now, after about a week of use, the cables have certainly lived up to their reputation! Probably the best description of their sound is simply that of clarity and neutrality. They let all the music through without adding or subtracting anything from it. All components of the sound spectrum are smooth and balanced; reproduction of dynamic range and soundstage is outstanding. The build quality of the cable is superb and they now incorporate the highly-desirable WBT connectors. Although I did not do an exhaustive (and time consuming) comparison of different interconnects, I frankly doubt that there is a better one out there for the price.