Pure Silver Wire


If silver is so good to use why do we not see solid silver speaker cables? Price is not that high- 10ga diameter pure silver 6ft is just under $300. That makes a pair of speaker cables about $1,100 for material. I see the price of some of these cables on the market and $1,100 is a fraction of their asking price.

 

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This is actually something I wouldn’t mind trying.

 

Silver bar is 99.9%+ pure. Sounds pretty high. So much so that I feel there is no degradation due to alloys. Grain structure ok. I do understand that metrology is something have experience with as a manufacturing engineer. A nice annealing will align back the grain structure and allow malleability again by taking out internal stresses.

 

The elastomer covering is a pretty easy process. The purity is actually makes things a bit tougher as it would have to be handled with care. If things don’t work out I can strip the wires and sell as scrap weight costing me only the wire drawing cost with elastomer. It’s 13oz plus grip (grip is the wasted sections needed to hold the material and work with it through the dies) to make 4pcs of 10ga x 6ft long each

Extra thick PTFE Coating around 8AWG/8 conductor pure Si stranded wire in a hexoganally braided configuration, encapsulated in a N infused silicon casing.

The difference between Si and Cu cables is immediately noticeable and amazing.

I can get expensive but once you hear the difference, you will never go back.

 

@carsbad2 off topic and I don’t mean to hijack this thread…what hifi hearing aids are you using? My dad needs a set. He’s a musician and is pretty particular about the sound quality. 

@starwarrior.. .  just being nitpicky....  the abreviation for silver is Ag not Si.  Si is silicon.