Silver cables and CD players


Is this a good match??? Or are there any cheaper cables that will be more compatable???
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I use only silver interconnects and speaker cables. I greatly prefer them to any copper I've ever used. Just my opinion. You can get good silver interconnects on audiogon at good prices. Silver speaker cables are much more costly since they require a lot more silver than interconnects.
It's not about silver, or copper, or gold, or combination of them.

Far more important are purity of the conductor(s), geometry of the cable, and the dielectric.

Silver cables cost more because silver is more expensive.

It has nothing to do with performance. Some of the very best interconnects and speaker cables are pure copper.
AudioFeil is right of course. Besides, you've asked this question more or less before and got plenty of good answers.
It is sometimes said, that silver will add to brightness. I myself would not think of using silver cables (quite apart from what Bill has said above) with CD players, especially considering, that you had said in an other thread, that your system tends to be brightish.
Try JPS Labs aluminum alloy cables. If you're like me, once you've heard them you'll never go back to copper or silver.
I know, aluminum sounds funky, sorta like cheap storm doors and flameable houses built in the 70s. But Joe S. has come up with a truly remarkable product that delivers the detail and openness of silver, but without the brittle highs, and with the warmth and richness of copper. Certtainly worth demoing a pair. You could always demo your favorite copper, silver and JPS cables from the Cable Company for a modest rental-goes-to-purchase-price cost and then buy what sound best to you.