Covering silver wire for use as a speaker cable

Nonoise,

Thanks for the tip. After doing some research since my post I think I will stick to bare wire for now. Contact with other wires is not an issue and silver oxide is supposed to be as conductive as silver.

Sabai,
Check out my systems page for my DIY speaker wire.

Ozzy,

Thanks -- will do.

Sabai,

I also used silver polish and 0000 buffing pads to really put a sheen on the wire.
I had enough wire to run the positives and negatives in opposite directions. Then, I threaded the wire into some oversized quality Teflon and twisted the wires slightly.

My speakers are Bi-wire, so I used 14 gauge on the bottom and 16 gauge on the top.

The wire I bought was soft annealed 4&5 nines solid silver wire.

This wire exceeded any and all speaker cable I have ever owned, and I owned quite a lot(at high $$$).

Now, since then the price of silver sky-rocketed but its a one time purchase.