Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference II vs. Absolute Copper IC's

@mclinnguy 

@dalims4

Laughing at your posts….and Mr. van den Hul’s conclusion on copper vs. silver.

He must be high on them brownies there….

@audphile1 

silver has about a 5% better conductivity than copper..  doubt it would be noticeable in many tests if at all..  I recently had some custom transformers built. I had asked for silver, which was quite a bit more expensive.. The designer/builder uses both copper and silver upon request. I was told that silver doesn’t sound any better and that I should stick to using copper. I was all ready to buy silver and pay the premium over cooper, but went with cooper after listening to the guy with 40+ years in designing and building transformers who could have easily taken my money and let me walk away paying almost twice the price… 

@mikem:

Sorry for the delayed response. We've been hit hard by three feet of snow coupled with ongoing power outage and power's not projected to return until 1/7. I'm on generator and can't stay long. 

Anyway, I use Audio Art speaker cable. I have long runs (20 feet) and when I started out, that's what I could afford. I've upgraded all my other cables over time (some, more than once) but not the speaker cable and I can't see doing it until we live somewhere that affords much shorter runs. 

The storm's brought a halt to my experimenting but The Cable Co. has generously granted me an extension on the loaner cable. I will try combining the A. Copper and Silver Ref. with the Lokius, next.