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Serious Question About Silver vs Copper Conductivity for Power

Yes, I realize that this topic is going to bring out the sharks, but if I get at least one serious response, it will all be worth it.

I understand that silver conducts 7% faster than copper.  I also understand that using a dielectric insulation like Teflon is best at keeping the wire from overheating, stopping signals entering and stopping signals from leaving the conductor. I understand that a certain amount of math is involved in selected gauge of wire depending largely on how much power the component is going to take, and how much the amperage is (20 or 15).

My question is regarding certain features applied to either silver or copper conductors that may or may not have an advantage over one or the other.

I have the Kimber Kable P14 Palladian.  This uses 14awg copper conductors insulated in Teflon.  Then it adds a massive filter that attempts to mitigate the standing wave ratio to as close to 1:1 as possible. I had Kimber’s Ascent power cable prior.  It’s identical to the Palladian, except the filter. I have heard the difference between using those two cables.  Apparently, mitigating the standing wave ratio lowers the noise floor significantly. However, any filter that chokes the signal and will slow the electrical current.

As I understand it, the amplifier works by opening the rectifier to allow the capacitors to fill with energy that the system will draw from.  Being able to keep the rectifier open and fill the capacitors as fast as possible, reducing lag time, has the effect of creating more realistic and detailed sound.

With that said, changing to a power cable that uses pure silver insulated in Teflon, will ensure that power is delivered potentially faster.  Although, the silver power cable will NOT have a filter.  Therefore the standing wave ratio will not be mitigated and the electrical signal will not be choked either.

So, would the amplifier benefit from faster electrical current or slower, but cleaner electric current?  Since this signal isn’t directly applied to sound, the concepts of “colder” or “warmer” sound should not apply.

Can someone help me out without poking fun at the question?  Additionally, I am not interested in having a cable-theory debate.  If you don’t believe cables make any difference, I will not debate or have discourse on that topic.

 

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serjio
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What is the length of the wire (material any) has a power cable? - and now try to dismantle any unnecessary medium-sized transformer ... it will be many MILES!

Do you get the idea? - if you need a more pronounced effect - try different transformers ...

Moving on... Your car runs on gasoline; You say - gunpowder burns better and faster - I will fill the car with gunpowder)))

The same situation with music - it will sound best if the electrical conditions in your house are as close as possible to the conditions of the studio where the recording was made ... any deviations (faster - slower) will spoil everything ...

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guakus OP
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@grannyring 

I will not be building this cable myself.  It is being built by Lavricables in their Master line.  I would have preferred their Grand line, but they said the C7 plug would not fit three separate bundles. They use a 9% silver solder.  I trust their construction.  I have three of their cables and they are fantastic.  This will be my first power cable from them.

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guakus OP
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@serjio

The length of the cable is 2 meters.

I am not certain what point you are trying to make regarding "Transformers." If you're referring to neighborhood, city, state electrical lines, average citizens generally don't have the power to have those altered or changed.  However, if one was super rich, I suppose one could buy anything. ;)

I don't think gun powder vs gasoline is a very good analogy to explain the electric current from copper vs silver.  I would say 86 octane vs 93 octane gas would be more appropriate.

I have to be honest.  If I listened to everyone's opinions on why getting a particular high end cable won't have a positive impact on my system....I wouldn't have as awesome a system as I have.  I have even had manufacturers recommend that I DON'T buy their high end.  Yet, when I do so, the effects are incredibly positive.  Devices and speakers don't have some built in fail-function that detects better incoming signal and decides to block it, ensuring that no further positive effects are possible beyond X, Y, Z point. Even the most poor device or speaker will perform at its maximum specification with better connections.

I don't have to worry about blowing anything up, thankfully.

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grannyring
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I see.  Thank you for that clarification. 

jea48
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@guakus ,

The power cable's geometry will be a total of 20 strands of 28awg solid silver, each 20 separately insulated in Teflon.  All braided into a hyper-litz geometry. 7 will go to hot, 7 to neutral and 6 to ground. 

Are you building, making, fabricating, this cable?

Teflon insulation should not be solely the insulation used to insulated power line conductors from one another. Example, insulate the hot conductor from the neutral conductor and safety equipment grounding conductor. You can use Teflon for each parallel run of the hot and the neutral paralleled conductors but you will need to use a rubber or equal covering over each paralleled group of conductors.

As for the EGC, (Equipment Grounding Conductors), it's a safety ground. It does nothing for sound. Just use an insulated stranded copper conductor.

As for the individual 28 gauge solid silver wires. For AC power, jmho, that is too small. I would think the wire gauge would have to be at least 16awg.... Maybe 18awg. 

Here is a Web Link to a wire combination calculator.

https://www.wirebarn.com/Combined-Wire-Gauge-Calculator_ep_42.html

Note: 7 , 28awg conductors in parallel only equals 20awg.

7~ 18awg = 10awg

5~ 18awg = 11awg.

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