Budburma,
I have been working with Jim Ricketts at tmh Audio (I have no affiliation, just friends) to do exactly what you are suggesting. Neeper speakers (Just introduced to the US market through Jim) will have a signature model using the Jade Audio gold plated silver wire for it's internal wiring. We are also discussing re-wiring a very high end amp with the same wire from the pc board to the speaker terminals.
We hope to have it all available for RMAF in October.
As for the rest of you boys, settle down. It just is not that important , but if anyone has a problem with me having vocal friends and/or clients, I am sorry. Is it wrong for someone who likes something to report on it? No. Is it wrong for someone to be a friend with a manufacturer who works out of a bedroom? I think not. Most of my customers have become good friends over this past eight months, so I guess they all have some type of conflict if that is the measuring stick.
Finally, I heard the GG Rev. on my system and was very impressed. These are great cables, I was not surprised with the tonality, in that this is proving to be a common denominator with gold wire. I was most excited to find that we both make very good cables that I feel have raised the bar for interconnects. I think it is important that the early gold cable manufacturers are beyond peoples expectation if the industry is going to join the few pioneers who are trying gold. If we succeed, then the entire industry succeeds because others with much larger R&D budgets can expand on what we are learning.
For me this is not a competition, it is a hobby that many of us are very passionate about. If GG can raise the level of performance, and if I can follow with another excellent product, then I see us all winning. Two great cables are being made for a fraction of the cost that we will see once the big boys jump in. It will be then that this is less about sharing our passions for music and more about winning.
Please, enjoy what we are all finding. Gold is a great material if used properly. I can also say from my design R&D, gold can be very thick, slow, fat and much too lush. GG and I have cables that have brought to Audiogon the tonality of gold without these long known weaknesses. Enjoy it, this is supposed to be fun.
jd
Jade Audio, LLC