Let's talk about Silver...

@fthompson251  - Not problematic in the sense of reliability, but over time I've found that many highly regarded audio cables are essentially subtractive in some form or another.

In my experience with WW, which was mid-level speaker and up to Gold Eclipse IC's, they were very subtractive in the mid to treble area.  Imaging improved, at the expense of overall musical energy. 

I can imagine with some speakers this would work well, and with some electronics which sound lean otherwise this could also be a good thing, but I've found playing those games exhausting and expensive.  The DH Labs/Connex pure silver IC's and Mogami speaker cables solve all my problems without giving me more.

@erik_squires 

methinks your argument is best summarized as: compensating one weakness by another doesn’t work and you end up chasing your tail. With that I agree wholeheartedly. good cables are short and well-shielded and that’s about all you can say. In addition, but much more contested: solid core is better than litz.

@richardbrand "So about 5.7% better conductivity for silver than for copper” - yep, just make Cu cable of the same gauge 6% shorter, or increase gauge by 6% and you are better than w/ silver! 

dielectric, which directly impact prop delay, used for audio cables is more important than conductor! 5ft cable with lower Dk/TAND sound better than silver / whatever conductor! 

@antigrunge2 

methinks your argument is best summarized as: compensating one weakness by another doesn’t work and you end up chasing your tail.

Pretty much, yes. Otherwise I have settled on solid core and well shielded as well, but honestly never compared to Litz cables in any form so I'm unable to comment on that.

I also want to mention that there’s a lot of connectors made with Rhodium. I made very pretty stuff with them, but from a conductivity and grip perspect I don’t like them. Same for nickel.

Leave Rhodium for jewelry. Stick to copper, brass, gold and silver for interconnect and speaker terminals.