Here is Toroid’s (Steve Schoonover) perspective on Silver Vs Copper.
He is/was the owner of Superior Mass Audio. They made a cable called "The West Star".
They hand built cables from the mines they own or owned.
It seems that hey are no longer in business, but he does talk about Silver vs C101 Copper.
Our family owns mines in New Mexico.
Working with the different elements and experimenting
with my own kilns creating pieces for different things,
and the experiment goes on and on since the early 90’s
long before this topic was an issue for the best sound
in any given system.
If you have to unscrew the RCA barrel to open up the
sound from a cable then that cable should be rendered
useless. All connectors affect the wire, period. I will
not even begin to get into metallurgy.
This is why the best speaker crossovers are hand built and point
to point soldiered "Old School" no fancy looking crossover
board with a name and a pricey logo with paper thin copper
contacts that would burn up if you tried to jump your car with
it.
I agree with Green, unscrew the barrel or just chop the whole
end off!, and re soldier it directly to to piece of equipment.
Getting back to reality, silver vs. copper or a blend, in my 27
years of building low frequency cabinets for car and home that produce over 155db @ 30hz for numerous car show and live venue events. has led me into the last 20 years of audiophile 2 channel mastering with no equal. Hearing the difference between every cable silver or copper I have ever made or sold for the last 17 years has led me to believe in both! Silver solid wire for the mids and highs
and solid copper wire for the mid bass and lows. That goes for your
internal wiring of the speaker crossovers too, whether or not the inductors are silver or copper.
There are to many variables in the audio chain that can lead me
to think otherwise.
Good luck and always remember, your ears! They do the final judging.
An ardent audiophile’s perspective.
The link below is to the specs on the West Star Copper cables :
VERY INTERESTING.IMO
952 Feet of twisted pairs. It seems that it took that many to get rid of the "skin effect"
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/speaker-superior-mass-audio-the-west-star-sma-since-1998-2014-09-1...
