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?
thecarpathian

Showing 1 response by millercarbon

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.