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I am looking for a set of solid silver rca plugs that will not break the bank. My project is a set of interconnects with silver wire, cotton shielded. I will be using 3M embossed copper tape as a shield, a cotton rope as a core, Teflon plumbers tape as a insulator between the shield and the wire, with the plumbers tape over the copper shield. Then I am encasing them with a poly braid. The solid silver wire will be one conductor (+) and one conductor (-) 23 gage. Any help would be appreciated. I have also considered silver plated solid copper RCA plugs as well. To deal with tarnish issues I was going to use DeoxIT Gold 100s.
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I am looking for a set of solid silver rca plugs that will not break the bank. My project is a set of interconnects with silver wire, cotton shielded. I will be using 3M embossed copper tape as a shield, a cotton rope as a core, Teflon plumbers tape as a insulator between the shield and the wire, with the plumbers tape over the copper shield. Then I am encasing them with a poly braid. The solid silver wire will be one conductor (+) and one conductor (-) 23 gage. Any help would be appreciated. I have also considered silver plated solid copper RCA plugs as well. To deal with tarnish issues I was going to use DeoxIT Gold 100s.
Suggestions?
Go for the common Neutrik gold plated RCA and take normal shielded guitar cable. Best bang for any amount of bucks.
Really, Spend big bucks for an 0,001 ohm decrease in resistance- first thing your preamp does BAM 100K volume control. now tell me what is the signal attenuation ?
Oh and silver corrodes. 😀 your gonna have to deox your connectors on a regular basis.
Oh and silver corrodes. 😀 your gonna have to deox your connectors on a regular basis.
I've had them on a set of high end Antipodes cables - they were great although did tarnish over time.
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I am looking for a set of solid silver rca plugs that will not break the bank. My project is a set of interconnects with silver wire, cotton shielded. I will be using 3M embossed copper tape as a shield, a cotton rope as a core, Teflon plumbers tape as a insulator between the shield and the wire, with the plumbers tape over the copper shield. Then I am encasing them with a poly braid. The solid silver wire will be one conductor (+) and one conductor (-) 23 gage. Any help would be appreciated. I have also considered silver plated solid copper RCA plugs as well. To deal with tarnish issues I was going to use DeoxIT Gold 100s.
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Just curious, what do you hope to achieve over a cable such as v4lve suggested?
One reason I have heard repeatedly as to why people chose silver connectors or cables is that silver oxide is a conductor.
This is true but the dark stuff that accumulates on silver is not silver oxide but silver sulphate which is an insulator.
Has anybody ever measured the capacitance/m for their home-brewed interconnects?
If so is it substantially lower than say 50pF/m (about 17pF/ft)?
If not what is the point?
This is true but the dark stuff that accumulates on silver is not silver oxide but silver sulphate which is an insulator.
Has anybody ever measured the capacitance/m for their home-brewed interconnects?
If so is it substantially lower than say 50pF/m (about 17pF/ft)?
If not what is the point?
Placebo effect. people want to get fooled.
Oh and in case you haven't noticed some 500 dollar cables use 25 cent Chinese gold plated rca connectors.
FYI, Gold is a lousy conductor of electricity as it is rated at 75% of the conductivity of copper. Pure copper is rated at 100% conductivity with silver at 106%. Also Brass has a electrical conductivity of 28% that of copper. Nickel is at 25% that of copper, with Iridium 32.5% that of copper. From my understanding a RCA connector made of brass and cold plated is only going to transmit 28% of the signal which is traveling down the wire. Silver wire and silver connects will point out glaringly the flaws in a cheap system or one that is out of balance or needs to be serviced.
I am running a Kenwood KT-8300 which has had the caps replaced, aligned and completely gone through. This is going directly to my Neuhaus Laboratories T-2 Amp. The wiring path is all of 24". The digital signal is from the blueray drive in the computer with the optical out to the optical in of the T-2 which bypasses the sound card in the computer. All this is out to Bose AM-5's for now. I am looking to upgrade the speakers to the Klipsch KS-525 speakers. I will add a powered subwoofer when I do that. I have also played with the idea of making a silver wired USB interconnect which would allow me to hook up things like my iPad, Galaxy Note II phone, etc.
I am running a Kenwood KT-8300 which has had the caps replaced, aligned and completely gone through. This is going directly to my Neuhaus Laboratories T-2 Amp. The wiring path is all of 24". The digital signal is from the blueray drive in the computer with the optical out to the optical in of the T-2 which bypasses the sound card in the computer. All this is out to Bose AM-5's for now. I am looking to upgrade the speakers to the Klipsch KS-525 speakers. I will add a powered subwoofer when I do that. I have also played with the idea of making a silver wired USB interconnect which would allow me to hook up things like my iPad, Galaxy Note II phone, etc.
Really? Could you explain this or give a reference? On the face of it, it makes no sense.
That's actually excellent conductivity. If one plates the ends of a 1m interconnect with gold (which is correct practice for high reliability), how much thickness is involved in the signal path? What is the effect on the interconnect DCR? What percentage of a typical load impedance (10k-100k) does that represent?
Copper wires, brass connectors, plated with silver for best, gold for next (but they look SHINNY) and I have not seen many silver plated RCA's.
IMHO
IMHO
so what did your mud conduct?
my phone cuts in and out all the time with the glitch sound.....wonder if it has brass in it?
my phone cuts in and out all the time with the glitch sound.....wonder if it has brass in it?
It is very simple to test this assertion with a voltmeter. As it turns out, it is completely inaccurate.
The information that I posted above was provided to me by one of my clients who is a electrical engineer. I have cross checked it against a mechanical/engineering reference guide called the Ugly Little Book, ISBN: 0763790990, ISBN13: 9780763790998, Author: George V Hart Sammie Hart, Publisher: Jones & Bartlett, Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett.
This book is available through Construction Book Express on line for $26.95.
As for the electrical conductivity of mud..... Do you REALLY want to know?
This has actually be documented quite well and is used in oil exploration. There are several articles on line about this. However, to quote Petrophysics MSc Course Notes, "the bulk resistivity of a rock Ro fully saturated with an aqueous fluid of resistivity
Rw is directly proportional to the resistivity of the fluid. Ro = F Rw" The resistance of mud is directly related to the proportion of water to silicon, calcium, salts and metals in the mud. The resistance depending on temperature and hydridity range from 0.2 to 2000 ohm.m (5000 to 0.5 mS/m).
Now that we have strayed far form Silver Interconnects. I will be using the Xhsadows
This book is available through Construction Book Express on line for $26.95.
As for the electrical conductivity of mud..... Do you REALLY want to know?
This has actually be documented quite well and is used in oil exploration. There are several articles on line about this. However, to quote Petrophysics MSc Course Notes, "the bulk resistivity of a rock Ro fully saturated with an aqueous fluid of resistivity
Rw is directly proportional to the resistivity of the fluid. Ro = F Rw" The resistance of mud is directly related to the proportion of water to silicon, calcium, salts and metals in the mud. The resistance depending on temperature and hydridity range from 0.2 to 2000 ohm.m (5000 to 0.5 mS/m).
Now that we have strayed far form Silver Interconnects. I will be using the Xhsadows
you must have missed the thread pano did on cables.
one medium was mud.
very cool to see if you can tell.
i think what the guys are saying is the % of signal out will be the same as put in......just attenuated.
cool choice. good luck tell us what you think.
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