Oxidation and bare silver or silver coated wire???


Anyone have any opinions or expereince with running unterminated silver or silver coated speaker wire, specifically the DH Labs Q-10? Seems they would not oxidize heavily nor quickly as copper does and should be just fine bare if the amp and speaker binding posts can get a good hold on them. Any suggestions? Thanks!
socrates

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Hello??? I believe Silver Oxide is actually more conductive that Silver itself. In audio, conductivity is less important than mechanical resonance. If it were as important as some would lead you to believe , everyone would be trying to get their silver to oxidize ASAP!! Or silver would ALWAYS be better than copper and most certainly better than gold...

Anyhow...

What happens to a silver cable which oxidizes is that the layer of oxide weights down the wire and changes the frequency at which it resonantes, hence altering the sonic signature of the cable.

Hey Audioengr, These chemical oxidation inhibitors you put in your cables.... what's their dielectric absorption? It wouldn't negatively effect the performance would it? Of course not!