Help me buy some new cables....

I agree that you should stick with copper and steal clear of silver in this application. In addition to Vampire, you can find some good older Harmonic Tech or Acoustic Zen cables on the used market...all of their cables are made of high quality copper.

Mt10425, They let you post your phone number here to sell on the side? Maybe they're letting one slip by once in a while to keep customers happy.

Rrog...shhhhhh

Hi guys, thank you all for your responses (and thank you Mt10425/David for a very pleasant and informative conversation today; I really appreciate you taking the time to speak with me). To give a few answers:

As for eBay, it isn't so much it 'has' to be eBay as it seemed like I could possibly find some good deals there. I've got two newborns, just finishing a house renovation, and have managed to squeeze out a little money to buy a couple of modestly priced (for me) pieces to finish my attic/music only system. Unfortunately, that has left me well and truly tapped and the cables were the last thing to get attention. That's why I've been scrounging for a deal and, hence, the eBay fetish. However, I'm not beholden to them (I hope not anyway... If the eBay police come we'll know that I am, in fact, beholden to the eBay behemoth :)

I have to admit that until you guys mentioned single crystal copper I never heard of or noticed it before. I've been aware of types of high quality copper, silver cables, and I think there is something like silver plated copper (or maybe I have that wrong). Silver cables are expensive, so I have no doubt that CC Silver would be WAY beyond my budget (and if I did buy them I'd simply have to sell them again to afford a divorce lawyer, so I guess I'll skip them).

This all brings up some other questions I've had, if you all don't mind. Out of curiosity, do silver cables/terminations tarnish? I would think so. Does that have an effect on sound quality? And why is it that it seems like whenever I see a silver cable--not that I've seen many--they are always the thinnest little things you can imagine and have what appears to be absolutely no shielding?

Btw, I will also check out harmonic tech and acoustic zen cables. Thanks Vhiner.

Notwithstanding to moderators: if you read any of the three threads I've got on this subject, could you combine them? I didn't mean to start my own quasi-sub-forum on my cable curiosities. Thanks!

I can help with the AQ G Snake, not Ebay cables, real ones!

send me a message on one of my listings...

Raymond