Building Speaker Cables

Seems counter-intuitive to resort to silver solder at any joints, when gold the gold plating is an inferior conductor to copper even.

@cgbgreg I have good results using TC8/TC12 Kimber Kable alike cables. 

"BTW, some cable builders cover the connection with an anti-corrosion compound or goop (before applying the heat shrink) to further retard corrosion."

Q-Dope (link) is the stuff I was trying to remember the other day when I posted the above.  A commercial cable manufacturer told me they used it to coat their crimped connections but that was years ago and I cannot remember who told me that.  I used to have some here.  It is basically polystyrene, which is similar to what you get from mixing styrofoam cups with acetone (but the result is very flammable until the acetone evaporates).  If you look at the linked site, and other sites formerly selling Q-Dope, it appears the Q-Dope product has likely been discontinued but could be replaced with this stuff (link 2).

Bare wire speaker and amp ends, sounds best.

@roadcykler +1 LOL 
If this was true why don’t you ever see or hear six & seven figure systems running bare wire.