Silver RCA Cable-share your experience, opinions here!

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I just bought some silver cable rca interconect and it certainly seems to give a more detailed treble/mid sound but the bass has gone down- I read somewhere that when you use them for a while they burn in and the bass comes back what have you guys found-I am using a set of esls so it was quite noticeable that the trebble mid had come out more-at the expense it seems of the bass :-(
 
I have a set of solid silver speaker cables and the same thing happened to the sound I have done over 100 hours of burn in and it has helped a little. The way I fixed this was to Use a higher ga copper cable with the silver cables and all my lows came back I wanted to see about this with a set of rca cables to see if I could get it to do the same What I did was use 28ga silver wire and a 20ga copper wire and braided them each one direction then the opposite direction to cancel any magnetic field that I could generate and that produced great highs and mids and all the bass came back I also made a set with just silver wire and wound them the same way and that’s when I lost a lot of the low end With some burn in time you will get a small amount of low end back but not all Good luck and I hope this helps
 
Silver bullet...
 

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It never ceases to amaze me to hear that people are persuaded to part with inordinate amounts of money for interconnection cables and then invariably believe that they can hear an audible improvement because of the inclusion of this magical cable. The degree of improvement is always directly proportional to the cost of the cable....

Some years ago, when I worked for a Big Broadcasting Concern, I was acquainted with a chap (let's call him Trevor) who worked for a specialist hi-fi retailer. One night in the pub, Trevor spent much of the evening extolling the virtues of this "amazing" loudspeaker cable that his shop had imported from somewhere improbable at about £21 per foot (this was the late 70s).

After a while, my colleague and I got more than a little fed up with this, so we told Trevor that we'd recently upgraded loudspeaker cables at work too, and we should have a blind comparison in one of his listening rooms. We suggested that he should assemble his favourite equipment combination - twice - and he could use his "amazing" cable for one, and we'd bring some of the cable we'd been using and do a blind comparison, using Trevor's choice of source material....

The following Saturday afternoon was arranged for the test. The equipment was duly set up behind the curtains in the listening room, and the two types of cable were installed.

Despite endless tests, innumerable changes of music and music source, nobody could tell the speaker cables apart, or identify which was which!

Trevor actually cried when we revealed that our equally amazing "speaker cable" was actually cheap twin lighting flex from Woolworths just along the street! :eek:

There is nobody more easily fooled than an Audiophool!
 
It never ceases to amaze me to hear that people are persuaded to part with inordinate amounts of money for interconnection cables and then invariably believe that they can hear an audible improvement because of the inclusion of this magical cable. The degree of improvement is always directly proportional to the cost of the cable....
Then it's high time it did
 
It would appear that the placebo effect mentioned by mictester has not fully worked for Audio Arenaline!

Is it too silly to suggest obtaining phono splitters in order to experiment with running the old and new interconnects in parallel? :)
 

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cable differences

well you may think that there is no difference but I have noticed as I have progressively upgraded my equipment you can hear significant changes in detail etc very easily-for example you can hear the quality of sound change in my system at different times of day as they change the amperage of the ac power they are putting through at around 5-6 pm and I noticed it even more when I was using the electrostatics-with a 150 wpc pre/power amp and since I had only recently changed from the other speakers I wonder if it the detail is as pronounced in non esl's- even with great quality conventional music Esl's will pretty much beat all else for fine detail-I had a great pair of speakers cost about $1000 but the esls made it sound like a different piece of music almost! All I know is I hear a difference anyway
 
I've made changes to my power cables Speaker cables Rca cables I make my cables and use OEM cables. Either way I hear and can Measure quality or lack of quality with either copper CCA. Tin plat copper and solid silver or copper coated with silver. For audio sound cables like speaker cables the best I've heard as been using solid silver braided with a pure copper cable with the silver and that would get me the lows back into the sound. It's not black vodo, it's just plan Scientific facts or how metals work with frequencies
 
Excellent, since you state you can measure differences (apart from resistance) in the audio BW between wires that are identical in every way other than conductor material, you should have no trouble posting those measurements here for us all to see. It will be the first time in recorded history that such differences have been measured and provided, so I am very much looking forward to them, together with details on your methodology and test equipment setup, along with notes on its calibration.
 
For audio sound cables like speaker cables the best I've heard as been using solid silver braided with a pure copper cable with the silver and that would get me the lows back into the sound.

When using silver, it is important to implement double or triple runs (expensive), instead of a single run, for each conductor... This will ensure the bass is not only impeccably defined, but well extended - copper can't come even close.
 

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Solid core silver is good, silver ribbons much better - the attached shows approximate size of a single ribbon that works really well for mains cables, speaker cables and the power supply (low voltage DC) distribution/internal hook-up wiring.

The level of annealing depends on where the silver ribbons will be implemented. Single end class A tube gear require a "decent amount" of annealing. Transistor/semiconductor gear a lot of annealing, but that makes handling of such silver quite difficult... but definitely worth the hassle.
 

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carlthess40 said:
It's not black vodo, it's just plan Scientific facts or how metals work with frequencies
I would welcome a reference to a textbook or peer reviewed research paper giving these "scientific facts" about how metals behave differently with different audio frequencies. My own science education somehow omitted these "facts" so I look forward to being enlightened.
 
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