Gold Vs Silver Audio Cables

Silver cable with silver connectors can be a very vivid presentation to say the least.

Gold vs silver audio cables. I m using balanced cables with silver coated pins on the xlr connectors as interconnect for my audio gear. But gold is easier to deal with and while lower conductivity quite good enough for most purposes and overall better for domestic equipment. So silver has a long history in audio and not all of it can be dismissed as woolly headed nonsense though there is plenty of that too. If you are considering silver cable find out how much silver is in the cable.

Imo the idea that silver vs copper would have any effect on low frequencies or high frequencies is absolute nonsense. Silver is good but it needs to be there. You can make 100 different balanced cables fron almost any shielded balanced cable stock and the result will be perfect every time. Too much for me.

I haven t found a cable or connector using gold that didn t sound a little too dark for my taste. All the pins on the processor and amp anthem statement d2v and p5 amp have gold plated on them. And note that i have. Silver salesman latched on to this precious metal as a marketing opportunity to sell a web branded performance vapor cable to audio and video enthusiasts.

A quarter century later we continue to do it best by virtue of sourcing virtually all materials in the usa combined with cutting edge engineering and impeccable quality control. Dh labs was one of the first to experiment with silver conductors.