Silver v Copper wire phono cable


Getting ready to order new tonearm, have option for either copper or silver continuous phono cable from cartridge to preamp.  without the  opportunity to compare personally, I would like to hear how others would chose....my system is shown on this site...thank you

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Dear @jw944ts  : With out doubt you must go for the copper . The ones that could tell you other thing has not the kind of room/system you own. 

Do not let the distortions of silver enter your system.  

Oh, Raul....  Once again your evaluation and interpretation fails.

Silver ADDS a 5khz to 8khz rise, even though slight, that creates a hardness / harshness to the signal.  It is pollution and distortion of the signal.  And I suggest that your system is seriously deficient as must be your hearing if you fail to detect such irritation.  Recall that it is possible in an A / B test to detect as little as 3mB difference is signals as demonstrated in blind tests.  

My room and electronics are reference grade.  It's a shame you only compare your system to better systems and don't realize what you're missing.

But there is the other possibility is that YOUR system is deficient or weak in the 5khz to 8khz because it was mis-voiced using a lack of quality components during design and manufacturing.  The distortion from silver would help artificially compensate for your lack of quality, but would not end up reproducing the signal as recorded.  The silver would only act as a fixed frequency equalizer.