Life span of silver cables with cotton/air dielectric


Good day Ladies and Gentlemen,
I need your advise and help,  on silver cables.
In detail, recently I have auditioned some silver cables interconnects which are using cotton as dielectric. I liked the sound and I was about to purchase them until somebody told me that they will corrode fast and the sound will degrade.

what’s your experience on this matter?

thank you 
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Showing 1 response by ljgerens

01-26-2021 12:15am

Unlike copper, oxidation on silver wire does not effect conductivity.

Not completely true. Silver does not readily form an oxide but it does readily form silver sulfide. Silver sulfide is a semiconductor with a band gap of 1.08 eV and thus would reduce the conductivity.