Do Recording Studios Use Silver Cables


Some of the best cables are made of pure silver.  Do recording studios use silver cables?  I would think that top recording artists would want to use the cables that sound the very best.

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there are many miles of cables... imagine how much their services will cost...
And who said they are the best? - most often it is the seller)) ...

Somehow, I don’t think top recording artists give 2 sh#%s what the cables are made of. Just FYI, some of the world’s most expensive cables use copper only. MIT, Transparent, Tara and Jorma come to mind. 

Recording studios typically do not use silver for interconnect as it would be prohibitively expensive as the runs can be quite long (input boxes, patchbays, console, etc). There can easily be thousands of feet of cable in a small studio. It would also be sorta moot because the XLR, TS, RCA or any cables the artists use in their own gear would be copper.

That being said, some mastering studios DO use silver wire as they're mostly concerned with a stereo run or two in between a few EQ/Compressors. A lot of mastering gear is also modded to include silver. Actually just saw a Sontec EQ listed that has 50 years of mods including a silver wire swap.

Top recording artists don’t even know what cables are for .

Strange question.