Pure silver wires?

[Wingman0121 10+ year member]

Silver conducts electricity better than copper, are there any places were you can buy wires that are made out of silver?

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[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

why do you need silver wire? the only wire i know of is either CCA or OFC...

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

That would be very expensive. For the price of copper wire vs. silver wire you would probably be better off running the gazillion runs of copper wire.

 

[DarkScorpion 10+ year member]

Silver conducts electricity better than copper, are there any places were you can buy wires that are made out of silver?

Most people who do use silver would use silver or silver plated copper for their RCAs, but not for their speaker wire. If you're interested in silver plated copper, check out the seller "navships" on eBay, I buy all my SPC from him. Pretty much the best seller on the market, IMO. He DOES have some lower gauge silver plated copper if you want to use it for speakers.

http://stores.ebay.com/Johns-Silver-Teflon-Wire-Shop?_rdc=1

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

So unnecessary...

 

[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

what equipment are you running to even make you think its worth spending that much alone on your..wire?

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

KnuKonceptz - view products for category Kasa Speaker Kable

$3.50 a foot and its only coated in silver....

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

There's a set of rcas on amazon for 9 grand that are pure silver

 

[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

he said "pure silver" you better check the price on silver lol. bet its rdiculous

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

Silver conducts electricity better than copper, are there any places were you can buy wires that are made out of silver?

silver is ~$40 per ounce of silver, that would be over $100 for about a 40ft run of 14 gauge speaker wire. it would be well over $500 for a single run of 4 gauge from battery to amp. to add on top of that silver is not a pliable or malleable than copper. cutting 16 gauge speaker wire made of just silver would be difficult with cable cutters. there is just no real feasible reason to use silver considering that it does not conduct that much better than OFC to justify the cost. copper is barely $4 per ounce. the cost does not justify the results that's also why gold is not used on exhaust manifolds (except for the McLaren F1 and space exploration). this is also the same reason why sound deadening companies use aluminum foil instead of copper foil, if Dynamat used copper foil instead of aluminum foil it would deaden ~3x's better than aluminum. if you know the length you can usually find pure silver speaker wire at high end home theater shops, that are pre-cut and terminated.

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

I have often wondered about silver winding for voice coils

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

I have often wondered about silver winding for voice coils

gold would be better as it dissipates heat better than silver, no more burnt coils (not really but pretty close)

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I have often wondered about silver winding for voice coils

It wouldn't be pure silver I wouldn't think. Iirc, pure silver is very soft and probably wouldn't stand up to much.

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

gold would be better as it dissipates heat better than silver, no more burnt coils (not really but pretty close)

true but silver is financially viable, and for SQ based subs or mids, silver being heavier than copper would tend to lower fs.

 

[ChevyRidinLow]

Silver conducts electricity better than copper, are there any places were you can buy wires that are made out of silver?

true. but not something you wanna do.