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RE: DIY silver Interconnect

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In Reply to: RE: DIY silver Interconnect posted by jtube on June 23, 2012 at 20:22:40

I'm a big fan of silver digital/video cables, but I'm a copper line-level cables fan, so a silver line-level interconnect DIY project is not on my personal cable build radar. However, I'm attracted to an unusual bulk silver interconnect cable product via partsconnexion.com that's impressive as far as the design and materials are concerned, but there is little talk about how the cable actually sounds. IMO, it should be burned-in via a cable cooker, but not cryo'd since the wires are silver conductors. I would recommend that the DIY builder budget liberally towards premium audiophile rca connectors for the DIY silver interconnect cable project in order to better compete with the best commercial builds:

Connex BL-Ag "balanced" interconnect cable, 2 x 23 awg w/shield and drain wire (pure 99.99% solid-core silver, foamed teflon, tape-wrap dielectric). NOTE: Custom made for pcX(ConneX) by DH Labs, priced per foot: $14.95 USD

See link below:

http://www.partsconnexion.com/wire_interc_connex.html (Open in New Window)

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RE: DIY silver Interconnect - mitch2 09:31:37 07/04/12 (2)
I am a fan of this wire also, for a silver interconnect. I actually have a length I cannot use, 2.5M, terminated with Furutech rhodium rca plugs.
- RE: DIY silver Interconnect - Duster 10:30:17 07/05/12 (1)
  I think I noticed those cables for sale somewhere on the web. If so, there's a layer of added material that surrounds the cable except for several inches from the cable ends. Would you know anything about the function of that material?
  - RE: DIY silver Interconnect - mitch2 00:53:12 07/07/12 (0)
    It is Starsound microbearing material, which they created for resonance control, similar to the Virtual Dynamics' Dynamic Filtering and serves a similar damping purpose as the Purist Ferox material.
    
    From the (former) Virtual Dynamics literature;
    "The cornerstone on which Virtual Dynamics builds its cables is the belief that Coloumb friction, which is described as mechanical vibration due to the resistance in the flow of electrons, causes mechanical energy to develop in conductors. This, according to Virtual Dynamics, results in distortion. The company claims that its Dynamic Filtering damps vibration from the conductor by using specially designed spheres or particles as a mechanically based circuit."
    
    It was my understanding that Virtual Dynamics may have actually used material from Starsound at some point. I believe later they used brass material.
    - http://www.starsoundtechnologies.com/micro.html (Open in New Window)

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