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I rewired my SME series IV with silver wire internally and it does sound good. My other cables are all stranded copper and sound great too. Cost and common sense come into this, much as Kevin said.
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I've bought and constructed a number of cables. The 0.6 and 1m Cusat50's are the best I've heard which is why I keep buying them. Using chokes to damp cable reflections and standing waves at problem frequencies makes sense to me and I respect the science Graham has used for this.
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Silver a better conductor than copper? For electronics, the frequency vs impedance relationship is of greater consequence than DC efficiency. Would be interesting to see the relationship for each material displayed graphically so that the materials can be compared.

More free electrons means higher electrical conductivity, not higher signal fidelity. The resistivity of both is in the same order of magnitude and really quite close so...


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_and_conductivity

1/2 way down page is a chart
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I'm getting confused here, when talking about which material (metal) to use are we talking about the inside of the cable or the RCA plug that goes into the HiFi box? as all Graham's cables have gold plugs.
Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question.
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Good question, so we know which bit we are talking about. In my post I am talking about the conductors in the cable, particularly the core that runs down the middle.
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The cable material itself. For the terminations, gold-plating is favoured for corrosion/oxidation resistance to maintain high electrical conductivity.

If we were trying to connect equipment with the most conductive material, we would be looking at superconductors. No, not silver; silver is not actually a superconductor. A true superconductor has a resistivity much closer to zero Ohms and requires very low temperatures close to absolute zero (zero Kelvin) and, it seems, very high pressure, to allow free electron trajectory to be as direct as possible within an ultra-pure perfectly organized lattice structure.


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