I received my AntiCable Reference IC's. I picked up the box they came in and it felt empty to me, then I opened up the box, and, lets say the cables didn't make a good impression from what I was used to seeing of other cables, the Ac were just a thin twist of wire connected to plastic ends. The "plastic ends" were actually Eichmann bullet RCA which are said to be very good. The proof was in the performance, the AC's replaced a set of entry Transparent IC's I was using until the AC's came in. The AC's provided immediate better resolution, focus, and gave a more realistic image to instruments. The bass may have been a bit more punchy with the Transparent but the AC was better in every other way, the bass had more bloom with the AC which may give the the impression of less punch, that or the much more midrange detail. The Reference IC's use silver conductors, I'd recommend any one with bad experience with silver to give the AC's a try, Paul Speltz says the purity of the silver is the key to making silver a good sounding material and he worked with his cables until he found the correct balance.

Paul's theory is cables sound different from each other due to the dielectric used, the dielectric can also cause capacitance, the same for shielding. I thought this a very reasonable explanation why some of us hear differences.

I already put the Siltech between my phono preamp and preamp but if I get energetic one day I may pull them for a direct comparison but from memory and knowing the differences between them and the Transparent I'm confident the AC's would still be best. The Siltech is better than the Transparent but they are also a level up as well.