Palladium has found a number of specialized (and special) uses for a variety of applications. A few are detailed below. If you encounter a use for the metal not mentioned on this site, we’d like to hear about it. Let us know at stillwaterpalladium@nwtmint.com.

Palladium Royal Coffeemaker
The palladium Royal Coffeemaker uses a coffeemaking design which dates back to the mid 1800s from France, and involves the use of a metal canister and glass carafe connected with a balancing siphon. The metal container is used to boil the water from a bunson burner. The boiling water is forced through the siphon to a glass carafe containing the ground coffee where brewing occurs. When all of the water is transferred, the glass carafe tips the balance, the burner is extinguished, and brewed coffee is returned to the metal canister, now ready for serving.

The coffeemaker is both a work of art and intriquing bit of alchemey. It brings the brewing of coffee from the kitchen to a dining table performance, not to mention that the coffee that results is perfect and drank by royalty.

Interconnect Cables for High End Audio Systems
Interconnect cables are the cables that carry the signal from an audio source, such as a CD player, to the amplifier. RS Audio’s Pure Palladium Interconnects are audio’s first product that uses pure palladium wire (.999 dead soft annealed) with virgin Teflon insulation several sizes larger than the wire itself, resulting in a dielectric primarily of air. Only a small percentage of the wire makes contact with the Teflon at any one time. The wire is shielded with carbon-infused nylon. Since it’s nonmetallic, the shield is left floating at both ends. This carbon-infused shield is black then covered with a decorative purple outside cover. A matched pair of 1.5 meter cables will set you back $1950 USD.

How does such such cables affect a system’s sound? Here is how it is described: “Pitch black background, deep, yet lightning fast bass, smooth midrange, and most importantly, seemingly limitless top end extension. Though not at all bright or fatiguing in any manner, Pure Palladium’s sparkling highs allow for the presence of the often coveted sense of air as well as glorious imaging and soundstage.”

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