I purchased some CryoTweaks Silver Interconnects from
www.tweekgeek.com for $43 shipped on the reccomendation of DoctorArthurWells. They arrived 2 or 3 days later via Priority Mail.
I was very happy with the looks and build quality of the cables and connectors. They are pure silver coaxial cables.
I plugged them into my CD player and amp and gave them a listen. They sounded very nice. I listened to Yes, 90210 or whatever CD it is, as well as my old standby Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. In my favorite track, Your Latest Trick, you can hear the awesome clarity of the saxaphone.
I then decided to compare them to my DIY Paper Clip interconnects, which are regular paper clips looped at the end and soldered together. I then used purple or pink scotch tape to keep them from shorting. The ground wire is just made out of Radioshack bus wire, again taped. All of the joints are secure and the cable is not broken, but these cables are fragile, stiff and rather ugly.
I plugged them in and listened to my Yes and Dire Straits CDs. The paper clip interconnects sounded suprisingly good also. For as ghetto as they look, they sound just as good as the silver interconnects, even though the 2 metals and insulation are far from similar. I gave both a good listen and tried to distinguish any differences between the 2 cables, but could not. They sound identical.
The CryoTweaks are a lot more expensive than the paper clips, but they look a lot nicer and are better made. The paper clip interconnects took at least a good hour to build and they are not very practical or well made.
The CryoTweaks are very nice for the money and I would recommend them to anyone who does not want to use the stock cables that came with your CD player. They are comparably priced with Blue Jeans Cables.
Associated Equipment:
Onix XCD-88 with OPA627 or 637s op-amps (I forgot)
Quail Power Cord
DIY M^3 with AD610 op-amps
Sennheiser HD580