Yes, they're not that hard to find, but as often using silver plated copper.
Take a while to break in, and when they do... they sound as good as copper.
Take a while to break in, and when they do... they sound as good as copper.
Silver/copper alloy cables
We all know cable manufacturers make either copper wire cables, silver wire cables, and or cables utilizing both respective strands. Anybody know of any cable manufacturers that make cable from silver/copper alloy wire? If not, any insight as to why?
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LAT International made something akin to an alloy, they are no longer around unfortunately. Here's their archived site.https://web.archive.org/web/20161105192505/http://www.latinternational.com/index.php/home/home%20-%2... Here's an explanation of their process. EXPLANATION OF OUR PROPRIETARY SILVERFUSE/NANO PARTICLES CONDUCTOR MATERIAL: Silverfuse/Nano is a near alloy of silver and copper. The copper used in this process is Single Crystal Continuous Cast Copper. It has unique physical and chemical properties, such as considerably longer granules with absolute absence of gaseous impurities such as oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. It is free from impurities (up to 99.99998% pure copper). It is far better than continuous cast Oxygen Free High Conductivity wire (OFHC). IT IS NOT SILVER PLATED. Silver plating causes a dioding effect when signal is passed through resulting in brightness and distortion. Because silver plating has a bad reputation, some manufacturers try to disguise the fact by calling it silver coated, silver clad or silver/copper hybrid. But they are all silver plated. Our Silverfuse process starts with Single Crystal Continuous Cast Copper wire with a diameter that is slightly larger than the required size. It is then pulled through a trough of molten silver and Nano particles. The wire with this deposit on it is then forced through a compacting process where it is subject to tremendous pressure. The silver with Nano particles and the copper are fused together into a near alloy. The compacting fusion also reduces the wire diameter to the desired size. Final step; Deep Emersion Cryogenic Processing. No dioding subsequently occurs with this process. The result provides for the benefits of silver; which are excellent definition and clarity, with the high purity copper benefits of warmth and mellowness. (Incidentally, pure silver wire also causes brightness) |
Your question seems to be based on the idea that since copper and silver sound a certain way all we have to do is mix (alloy) them together and we get the best of both. Like mixing pineapple juice and rum. Only these are metals. Silver melts at 965C, copper 110 degrees hotter at 1085C. Pretty much all our high end audio wire are five nines pure. But getting two metals to alloy properly often requires mixing in other elements that may not be desired for the end result but are necessary just to make the alloy. I'm no chemist but it takes like 30 seconds to learn this, and that's even with todays corrupted search engines. The best solution I have seen are my Synergistic Research Element Copper Tungsten Silver cables. These combine the bass warmth of copper with the speed and extension of silver with the beautiful midrange of tungsten. Essentially three high end hand made cables in one. It would be a hell of a lot easier if we could just mix them up in a blender. Yum. But we can't. |
Actually, the premise of my question is simply that there exists, and you can purchase, silver/copper alloy wire in various percentages with no added elements listed. I was just wondering if anyone knows of a company that utilizes this wire for manufacturing cables. And if not, why not? Seems like the best of both to me....if you dig that type of sound. |
I thought SRs tungsten construct was a silver/tungsten mix. They just don’t use a length of tungsten SC wire. There is a lot of thinking in SRs constructs, It’s not Brylcreem, "a little dab will do ya".. LOL Yup I read that...in the actual wire recipe, for the tungsten/silver mix. Not cheap stuff. It’s a lot more malleable too.. SR has some really good stuff always going on. I just read a cable 3 meters SILVER CLAD 12/24 conductor #20 (spaced) ribbon cable. with spades. and wood weight blocks 34,000.00 PLUS... for a pair... 2500.00 for parts and labor, that’s a push.... That cable is just Copper clad, plane and simple, oh it might have a twist or a good cryo (LOL)... A great looks, but in reality 30,000.00 worth of pure GREAD. They have a 17,000.00 version too.. 6/12 or something.. I use nickel / silver. I have some short boxes that have all kind of mixtures in short lengths on turret boards. I've tried a lot of mixes,some are really different.. lead/tin, alu/mag, molyB/alu, brass wire. I've also wrapped short runs of different combo stranded and SC wires with VERY fine silver, and copper SC wire. one wrap per inch or so. THAT made some really interesting cables... The mixing box can hold 15 different constructs, a network and custom wound adjustable induction coils.. Regards.. |