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In Reply to: Re: Sonic Craft sells super-high-purity Ohno-Continuous-Cast copper wire... posted by ChrisVH on January 27, 2007 at 10:50:47:
@jeffreybehr: They don't seem to have any wire on their website at the moment, however I have kept an eye on VHAudio.com for the past few years and I think Chris's product array is impressive and shows some real thought and ingenuity. But I have to say I think there still is a lot of hype in the cable market as to what "sounds" better. Honestly, you can spend thousands on ICs, speaker cables and power cables, but for short runs, does the quality of such cables really portray more information, detail and clarity to your components (amps, speakers, etc...) past a certain "level" of cable?@Chris: For example, if a system uses your spectrum silver interconnects (which I do not doubt are very well built and {in theory} are superior to high-end copper ICs), even if the component binding posts are replaced with silver binding posts. At some point, the signal will likely pass over copper wire. I don't know that much about electronics, so perhaps you can shed some light on this: If a sound travels over silver, does it have a unique sound signature that is specific to traveling over a silver IC? It must. But at some point, if that sound signal travels over copper wire, or any other metal, will it colorize and/or alter that sound signature? I suspect the colorations and the audibility of the sound signature is open to debate, but let's start with the theory.
Why do I ask? I have pondered the plausibility and benefits (if any) of creating a completely silver signal path from my source/dac to speaker drivers (silver binding posts on all equipment and speakers, silver ICs, speaker cables, and silver inductors and capacitors in speaker crossovers in addition to internal preamp and amp silver wiring).
If a high-end audio system's components are based on copper internal wiring and copper (or brass gold-plated semi-equivalent) binding posts, won't the introduction of a silver IC (like your SPECTRUM Ag) alter that sound signature creating a mixed copper/silver signal path. Now, for a short run (as in the lengths at which you sell the silver IC {i.e. 0.5m/1m}), will that altered sound signature deliver more information, increased detail, frequency range and/or clarity? Or will the mixed Copper/Silver construction of your signal path negate the effectiveness of using Silver as a conductor?
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