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In the Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread)
Post Subject: Mixing silver and copperPosted by drdna on: 6/29/2008
Yes, I agree, eliminate all connectors. They are made of terrible metal and it is like seasoning your food with a tiny bit of poison.
On the subject of mixing silver and copper, I did find that multiple strands of different metals seemed to yield a tone which was an average of the effects of the different metals' contributions. In a pair of speakers I built that was too bright and hard, I used a combination of copper and lead to mellow out the sound and bring it closer to neutral.
Maybe there was something wrong with the silver-coated copper wire you used. The way you describe it does not sound the way I expect for the metal, but more for the "breaking in" aspects of a particular cable geometry. Was it also single stranded 25 g silver-coated copper?
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