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In Reply to: Why is Siltech the only line with a gold-silver conductor? posted by Tekunda on November 13, 2001 at 18:52:58:
Copper has a conductivity of about 100, silver is around 106 and gold is 67 or so. Correct me if my numbers are wrong but i do believe that they are in the right ballpark. The only advantage i can see in using gold is that it is chemically inert, and has a crystal structure that is more suited for very thin wires thus making very light wire assemblies possible (Like the Clearaudio Insider Gold coils) You can get 4N gold wire from A-M systems for about $120 for 25 feet of 40Ga un-insulated wire. which is about three times the price of the silver wire. One of these days when i have nothing else to do i may try it as ChrisVH mentions it.
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The reason why gold is used only as plugs because it does not corrode, unlike copper or silver. Using it as a cable is not recommended because of its low conductivity.
Well I do not get it, I guess. The Siltech G5 is one of the best cables I ever heard, but its a gold-silver alloy and here are two people telling me that the use of gold is not recommended.
Have the people not read my post I wonder?
I was not speaking about pure gold, but an silver-gold alloy like Siltech uses.
I guess they have found that an alloy containing gold does just the opposite what people claim here: it is not degrading the sound, but improving it!!
If siltech uses a silver-gold combination, then I guess they made use of the gold as a corrosion-preventive material. Correct me if I'm wrong here - my comment was based on studies and technical papers I've read on using gold, silver and copper.Have you tried comparing the Siltech with another silver only conductor interconnect?
Yes, many of the cables I tried were silver only. Like the Acoustic Zen.
Is it? This is not a universal opinion. Gold cladding, Cryo, and super pure wire does not always make the best cable. Transparent uses copper, now what?
I never wanted to suggest of course that Siltech has the best cable out there. It is very good and from what I just read about the Transparent Opus, it seems not to justify the price tag.
Yes, copper makes an excellent conductor also, I enjoy the copper Sahauro cables very much.
According to Siltech, although gold has a lower conductive value than
silver, it has the ability to reduce what Siltech calls micro level
distortion. Therefor by filling gold at an atomic level in a silver
conductor, they are able to combine the strengths of these two
metals.
nt
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