Gold is bad

[Buckle-meister]

There's been threads on this kind of thing before, but when I read this, well, I just had to let you all see it. What's ironic is that whilst we all will laugh and deride this outfit, they're the ones making all the cash.

Just who's laughing at who?

 

[Rip Van Woofer]

Well, then. I guess all those "golden ears" out there who can discern the sonic properties of precious and base metals will have to start calling themselves "silver ears".

 

[furrycute]

Not terribly expensive. One of those will cost you about a week's worth of lunch money.

 

[jaxvon]

Isn't this kinda inconsistent?

"silver is generally too soft and brittle to be used as a connector."

I thought hard and brittle went together, like soft and malleable.

 

[Buckle-meister]

Not terribly expensive...

Ah but consider: All it would take is a couple hundred (it is the world wide web after all) poor saps, and you'd have a tidy little sum of money.

 

[furrycute]

Silver is brittle? I had no idea. Copper is malleable. But I thought most metals are malleable. Are strands of pure silver really brittle?

Pure gold is really soft. But gold plating improves contacts. I had no idea that gold plating degrades the quality of contacts.

 

[Buckle-meister]

Silver is fairly soft. Consider silver rings; over time they tend to deviate from a perfect circle.

One thing at least was true in the link; silver does oxidise in the atmosphere (pretty fast too), and will eventually blacken with time.

 

[furrycute]

This starts me thinking about those ultra expensive high tech power cords. Yep, a 3ft Virtual Dynamics powercord costs about $800. And that supposedly improves the sound.

I really wonder if anyone is rich enough to have the entire power grid supplying his house replaced with Virtual Dynamics powercords, you know, those thousands of miles of power cables from the power plant to your house, carrying those "unpure" electrons. I really do wonder if doing that will dramatically improve the sound of your stereo setup. Then again, it better be, as doing so will set someone back a couple of tens of million bucks. But you can always negotiate a bulk purchasing deal with Virtual Dynamics.

 

[AverageJoe]

From their site:

"Do they tarnish, you will now ask!

Yes they do, and they will need to be cleaned occasionally for the very best sound, however, even silver oxide has far better sonic properties than any other material..."

So when I get out the polish to clean the candlesticks, silverware, jewelry, etc.

...it never dawned on me to gather up all my interconnects, too.

 

[Sheep]

Silver is brittle? I had no idea. Copper is malleable. But I thought most metals are malleable. Are strands of pure silver really brittle?

Pure gold is really soft. But gold plating improves contacts. I had no idea that gold plating degrades the quality of contacts.

Gold doesn't "improve" anything. It just stops the copper from coroding. Silver is the because at transfering electricity, but copper is only a couple, whatevers, behind.

SheepStar

 

[mtrycrafts]

but copper is only a couple, whatevers, behind.

SheepStar

6% less conductive than silver. Big deal.

 

[Sheep]

6% less conductive than silver. Big deal.

Yes, thats what I was looking for 6% less condutive, and how less per Lbs then silver? LOTS.

SheepStar