Silver cables and CD players

It's not about silver, or copper, or gold, or combination of them.

Far more important are purity of the conductor(s), geometry of the cable, and the dielectric.

Silver cables cost more because silver is more expensive.

It has nothing to do with performance. Some of the very best interconnects and speaker cables are pure copper.

>but without the brittle highs, and with the warmth and richness of copper<

This is an old wives' tale that has perpetuated erroneously over the years.

Copper is not warm and silver is not etchy.

I've owned/heard grainy copper cables and mushy silver cables.

Once again, it's about the implementation not the conductor material.