Let's talk about Silver...

@slaw my post wasn’t directed at you. In fact, I didn’t see your post before I posted.

My post was merely to point out that many buy alot of disparate gear and drop in a cable without any basis for doing so other than “I wonder if these will work”. I’ve heard Shindo systems with Shindo silver IC’s and speaker cables and there wasn’t a hint of brightness.  Same with Kondo and same with Audio Note UK. Well designed, properly matched gear supplemented with well designed and properly matched cables/IC’s compliment one another.

@zlone …

any more thoughts on the merits of pure silver over pure copper in digital cables?
 

I’m using Purist Audio CAT7 (silver) Ethernet cable and like it.
I’ve also used AQ Diamond USB (silver) and it was good. I actually found it to be smoother than the copper Audience FrontRow. 

I don’t have silver for my digital cable, but did try the Zenwave D4 last fall and it is a remarkable IC in my system. The new D4 is all UPOCC silver. It has incredible resolution and body and no brightness at all. I compared it to the Iconoclast UPOCC copper cable, which is also excellent across the board, but the Zenwave cables had more resolution, incredible sense of space and imaging, and very natural timbre. I was shocked at what the silver cable did in my system. I bought the Zenwaves and am now trying their power cables as well.

I have copper, tin plated copper, silver plated copper, pure silver, silver/gold cables in my system, assuming your cables provide top level resolution/transparency, cable are tuning devices for tonality. Quality silver provides refinement rather than brightness in recent years, did hear brightness sometimes with prior systems. I also don't like silver in power cables, only copper with rhodium connectors for me.

@sls883 

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