Serious Question About Silver vs Copper Conductivity for Power

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I guess I am done then. The cable arrives on Monday and I have every intention of using it. :D (by the way, no one should be concerned because it isn’t their system. Also, the amp has a fast blowing fuse, so I am also not concerned in the slightest about damaging my speakers or system. I thank everyone in advance for their concerns for my personal and equipment’s safety.)

You’re right, electrons and metals do not care what resistance they encounter. They have no control over their molecular structures. However, circuit boards, capacitors, inductors, resistors, rectifiers, coils, and magnets do care a little bit as they’ll be the ones to make use of all those incoming electrons and someone configured them to care simply because there is an intended and desired end result.

In regards to inductance, it appears to be a specification largely applied to resistance coils in a circuit. Having low resistance will mean that the inductance will be different. Silver has lower resistance than copper. Therefore, inductance will change between the two materials. After all, they can't help it. ;)

I disagree that one can make better cables at home. I know, I have tried. It’s difficult to twist heavier gauge wire in the precise intervals needed to increase conductivity and lower resistance/inductance. You really need precise machinery and tools which if you went and bought, and then bought the materials, you would be out as much money as it would have cost to buy one of similar specification. I suppose the only benefit then is the satisfaction that you made it yourself.

@sevestan  Nah, Alex Jones has no clue.  However, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is the one who is always in the know.  ;)

 

… (by the way, no one should be concerned because it isn’t their system. Also, the amp has a fast blowing fuse, so I am also not concerned in the slightest about damaging my speakers or system. I thank everyone in advance for their concerns for my personal and equipment’s safety.)

But people do care about this stuff and like to understand it, and to share their knowledge.
Hence please provide some feedback after you have tried the new cable, so that others may benefit from your experience.

 

 

You’re right, electrons and metals do not care what resistance they encounter. They have no control over their molecular structures.

Actually a metal does have control of its atomic structure, which is why metals are conductive, and do not have a massive gap that they need to overcome in order to get an electron “free”.

 

 

However, circuit boards, capacitors, inductors, resistors, rectifiers, coils, and magnets do care a little bit as they’ll be the ones to make use of all those incoming electrons and someone configured them to care simply because there is an intended and desired end result.

The electrons for copper and the ones for Silver are the same sub atomic particulars. So all the electronics in the box have no way of differentiating where any particular electron came from.

And ^that^ assumes that it is all about electrons in a EE sense. If it is actually about electric fields, then the electronics may also care about things like dielectrics, which are not conductive.

 

 

In regards to inductance, it appears to be a specification largely applied to resistance coils in a circuit.

It is not a resistance coil. The things which are designed to have inductance are called inductors.
The things which are designed to have capacitance are called capacitors.
And the things which are designed to have resistance are called resistors.

 

 

Having low resistance will mean that the inductance will be different.

No, that is incorrect.

 

Silver has lower resistance than copper. Therefore, inductance will change between the two materials. After all, they can’t help it. ;)

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chpt-15/factors-affecting-inductance/

No, This is also incorrect.

Inductance is not resistance, and neither is capacitance call resistance.
Both inductance and capacitance are what make complex loads.

Resistance is the “real part” of impedance, and the complex part of impedance is governed by inductance and capacitance.

One can have a massive inductor, with a lot of inductance, and it can also have a DC resistance close to zero.
One can also have a massive capacitor, which will have a DC resistance that is super high, but can appear as a short circuit to a momentary load, or a high frequency signal.

The metal has no effect on capacitance, nor on inductance.
Geometry affects both capacitance, as well as inductance.
And the use of dielectrics only has an effect on capacitance... the dielectrics have no effect upon inductance.

 

I disagree that one can make better cables at home. I know, I have tried. It’s difficult to twist heavier gauge wire in the precise intervals needed to increase conductivity and lower resistance/inductance. You really need precise machinery and tools which if you went and bought, and then bought the materials, you would be out as much money as it would have cost to buy one of similar specification. I suppose the only benefit then is the satisfaction that you made it yourself

Places sell the wire woven, and some people do simple twists on smaller wires/cables. Kimber 12TC is one example of a bare woven wire. And there is another out of Tx, which I forget the name of.

https://kimber.com/products/12TC

Other manufacturers sell the ends that are put onto the wire to make a cable.

It is not rocket science.

In light of the above discussion, interesting quotation directly from the Lavri cables website:

"5N silver transmits electrical signals faster and with less distortion than ordinary OFC wires".

Hmmm.