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Silver-plated or single metal IC's?

With regard to single-ended interconnects (RCA), there seems to be two schools of thought about the merits of silver-plated copper versus single-element conductor (ie. pure silver OR copper etc).
I've been led to believe that Silver-plated cables only benefit very high frequency signals (like video), and not audio. Any opinions?
(I'm nowhere near a store that allows try before you buy, so comparisons would be tricky for me).
carl109

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audiofeil
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Agree with Clio09 on the MI-2; one of the all time high value products.

The silver/bad and copper/good position stems from a lack of experience with cables in general. Nothing more.

There are excellent and poor examples of both. To deny this is disingenuous.
audiofeil
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Disagreement on terms such as brisk, cool, musical etc. is natural as there are no universal definitions, only subjective appraisals.

However, anybody with audio experience knows that copper, silver, and plated wires cannot be pigeon holed into categories such as cold, warm, etchy, grainy, soft, etc.

Purity of the wire, geometry, and dielectric are far more critical determinants of a wire's sonic signature.

That is not debatable.
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