Digital Interconnect - Silver?


Are the best digital IC's always silver or copper clad with silver? Seems like most ads I've seen lately for digital interconnects say they are made of silver. Any suggestions for an excellent digital IC made with copper? I'm trying to convert my whole system from silver cables to copper. I already replaced the speaker cables. One digital and 3 regular sets of IC's are still needed. I'm not trying to accomplish anything particular by doing the switch. I started out with silver cables everywhere a few years ago and I want to see how the system sounds with all copper. Must be the Winter getting to me.
msnloeth

Showing 1 response by tireguy

Msnloeth- That is a good idea and I will quote a private email that another member and I had about this same exact subject.

"Quanta noise developed when transferring the signal through silver cables creates high amounts of jitter. Copper has much lower quanta noise as well as a different frequency. There would be quite an improvement in that area as well."

So I think there would be a noticeable amount of improvement if you were to go from silver to copper, I was in the process of switching all silver to copper, but am on longer using transport/external DAC so I never tried using a copper digital cable.

I know Jena Labs makes a copper digital cable which I imagine is among the best, I have enjoyed every cable I have heard that they make, I don’t see how or why the digital cable would be any different.
Tim