Pure Silver Wire


If silver is so good to use why do we not see solid silver speaker cables? Price is not that high- 10ga diameter pure silver 6ft is just under $300. That makes a pair of speaker cables about $1,100 for material. I see the price of some of these cables on the market and $1,100 is a fraction of their asking price.

 

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Extra thick PTFE Coating around 8AWG/8 conductor pure Si stranded wire in a hexoganally braided configuration, encapsulated in a N infused silicon casing.

The difference between Si and Cu cables is immediately noticeable and amazing.

I can get expensive but once you hear the difference, you will never go back.

 

@carsbad2 off topic and I don’t mean to hijack this thread…what hifi hearing aids are you using? My dad needs a set. He’s a musician and is pretty particular about the sound quality. 

@starwarrior.. .  just being nitpicky....  the abreviation for silver is Ag not Si.  Si is silicon.

I also use Siltech gold+silver for interconnects.

If I stay with silver, likely Albedo as the purist high value performing silver.  

@worldwidewholesales stated  "Pure silver has a shorter molecule distance then pure copper which makes it faster and more accurate in terms of sound quality."

This is an incorrect statement. The interatomic distance for copper (Cu) metal is ~ 0.26 nm and the interatomic distance for silver (Ag) metal is ~ 0.29 nm. The lattice constant for a Cu (fcc) lattice is ~ 0.36 nm and the lattice constant for a Ag (fcc) lattice is ~ 0.41 nm. So in the metal, the Cu atoms are actually closer together than Ag atoms.