Crystal Cable’s and Siltech’s Chief Engineer Edwin Rynveld’s latest top-of-the-line creations, the Art Series Da Vinci wires, are the quietest components of their type that JV has ever heard. There are sound technical reasons for this: Edwin’s Art Series DaVinci wires have a newly constructed dual-layer shield—one layer a mesh of pure G9 silver/gold-alloy strands, the other of pure MonoX silver—which provides verifiably wider immunity against EM and RF fields, lower ground impedance, lower inductance, much lower capacitance (three times lower than JV’s reference Crystal Cable Ultimate Dreams), and lower current distortion. The improvement isn’t only a matter of measurements on paper; it is as immediately audible as the shockingly deep silences of tape and optical-cartridge playback are—and fosters the exact same impression of neutrality, completeness, and higher fidelity. Da Vinci is a genuine step forward in cable, interconnect, and power cord design—not a different or more appetizing “flavor,” but a lowering of the characteristic noises (and susceptibility to noises) that give wires their flavors. JV, 328