Royal Single Crown Speaker Cable (Pair)

Royal Single Crown Speaker Cable

Siltech’s S10 monocrystal silver gives the Royal Single Crown Speaker cable even more transparency, detail, depth, and musicality. All due to further improved and more constant conductivity.

Its 6-core Hexagon construction, with more efficient and symmetric wire distribution, leads to less inductance, while the wide-range shielding offers reduced capacitance.

Available with Spade and Banana connectors:

Spade – Siltech-made SSP009 made from pure G9 silver-gold alloy
Banana – WBT 0610 Ag

As Siltech’s finest ever cable range, the Royal Crown series replaces our highly acclaimed Royal Signature series. A clean-sheet, no-compromise design, it covers every popular audiophile application, from analogue and digital interconnects, to power cords and loudspeaker cables.

When connecting loudspeakers to the amplifier that drives them, everything must be right about the cables linking them. Siltech’s Royal Crown series speaker cables do the very best possible job, with no compromises made.

At the heart of the design is our unique, single silver crystal conductor. Silver is the most conductive metal in existence, and this is its purest, most conductive version – without no boundaries whatsoever. The result of nearly five decades of research, Siltech’s S10 monocrystal silver is the best that money can buy.

Proper construction is no less important, to achieve superlative sound. The Royal Single Crown and Royal Double Crown cables use our unique 6-core Hexagon topology, with a combination of Kapton and Teflon insulation, and a TC floating shield for the best possible rejection of electrical noise. An internal air gap acoustically damps the cable to further reduce mechanical interference. The result is an ultra-low loss loudspeaker cable with dramatically lower capacitance and inductance than is normal. This effect is even greater with Royal Triple Crown’s special multicell construction. Royal Single Crown speaker cable is terminated with G9 silver-gold spades, whereas Royal Double Crown and Royal Triple Crown use S10 monocrystal silver spade connectors.

Siltech’s flagship speaker cables are available in Royal Single Crown, Royal Double Crown, and Royal Triple Crown versions with increasing conductor thicknesses and air gaps, each delivering class-leading performance at their respective price points.

To the best of our knowledge, Siltech’s S10 Monocrystal Silver is the finest audio cable conductor ever developed. We don’t say this lightly, as it is the product of many decades of intensive research and development, now arriving at our 10th generation of silver metallurgy. Our dedicated listening team, and many music lovers around the world with us, think it delivers a musical performance without equal.

Material science
The type of conductor used is central to the performance of an audio cable. Various materials have been tried over the years, from copper to carbon fibre, silver, gold, or combinations of them. These all have their own characteristics which have a fundamental effect on sound quality. But it isn’t just about what material you choose; it also depends greatly on the production technique used to make it.

Looking under a microscope, you’ll see that metal is a lattice or matrix constructed from individual atoms, which is imperfectly constructed from multiple large crystals, all locked together. Between those crystals are boundaries and voids – barriers that any signal passing through the metal must cross.

These interruptions and discontinuities in the conductors don’t show up via empirical measurement techniques, but subjective listening can detect them all too clearly.

Because human hearing is a primary defence mechanism that’s capable of discerning the distance and direction of any potential threat, it is incredibly sensitive to any disturbance in the patterns and natural structure of noises all around us.

So, while our auditory system might not have been designed specifically to appreciate recorded music, it is astonishingly capable of analysing and appreciating the complex shapes, patterns, and structures in a musical performance – and recognising any distortions or deviations that afflict them.

Monocrystal Silver
Siltech (short for SILver TECHnology) has become famous for its silver metallurgy used in its cables and even in loudspeakers and electronics. Siltech’s first invention – back in 1997 – to solve the problem of these crystal voids of natural silver was its proprietary Silver-Gold alloy, now having reached the ninth generation G9. It fills those tiny gaps inside the crystal structure with pure gold, leading to a more accurate and enjoyable sound than any other type of silver.  Although filling in these microscopic cracks brings huge sonic benefits, it cannot match a conductor where those voids are entirely eliminated in the first place.

Siltech S10 Monocrystal Silver
Siltech’s continuous single silver crystal metallurgy completely eliminates microcracks, giving the lowest possible resistance and distortion.

Developing our own specialist, audio-specific measurement techniques, Siltech was able to detect and evaluate the impact of the barriers and voids within conductor materials, and identify the myriad of micro distortions they produce. This lets us set about reducing the damage that they cause to the audio signal passing through our cables. This approach went way beyond simply selecting the raw conductor material.

Using sophisticated annealing processes, adjusting both the temperature and rate at which our conductors are drawn and how long they take to cool, we were able to produce larger and more consistent crystal structures, reducing the barriers and discontinuities in the signal path.

While many manufacturers have worked with what’s commonly called ‘long crystal’ or ‘monocrystal’ copper, Siltech combined this technology with our superlative quality silver to produce our groundbreaking Monocrystal Silver cables. Not only does it reduce distortion, but our monocrystal silver wire also has a conductivity of 106% to even 112% of regular silver wire, leading to an extremely detailed, transparent, and homogeneous sound.

Absolute performance
As they feature the most expensive raw materials and are hugely time-consuming to produce, you will only find Monocrystal Silver conductors in Siltech’s premium and flagship products, with Crown in their name – Our 35 Years Anniversary Crown Prince series and the flagship Royal Crown Series (including our top-of-the-line Royal Triple Crown).

When absolute performance counts, cost or effort cannot be a concern. Indeed, the very existence of these products shows Siltech’s commitment to advancing the science and art of sound.

Metallurgy:   Pure S10 Monocrystal Silver
Construction:   Hexagon
Insulators:   Kapton, Teflon, Air Insulation Structure & Wide-Range Shielding
Cores:   6