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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I’m still stuck on the idea of “silver cables”. I don’t think silver cables are the “best” that would be too much!  A lot of high end cable use silver as ell as copper and gold as a blend to tame the silver, ie nordost, siltech, and analysis plus to name a few. 

Recording studios are not audiophile dens.

Engineers are not fools.

 

Studios do not use simple interconnects with XLRs or RCAs; they use massive bundles with XLRs and multipin connections.

Hogwash. Most had walls of individual cables. Snakes are used on stage for safety, but I never worked a session anywhere with a snake box on the floor. Typically for a large session, cables would run to a wall jack panel which could be wired with multi-conductor or individual cables.

For vocals and overdubs, often we would run a single cable under the doors. Some studios had a few cables in soundproof pass throughs to connect directly from the mic to the preamp.

 

I’m still stuck on the idea of “silver cables”. I don’t think silver cables are the “best” that would be too much!  A lot of high end cable use silver as ell as copper and gold as a blend to tame the silver, ie nordost, siltech, and analysis plus to name a few. 

Look at the dielectric and geometry. That is six nines of their sound, some of which are terrible in some systems due to their 'tortured' design.

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