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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 
rim
ebm
9,311 posts
 
Stay away get copper of which PURIST is the best.This silver cable with cotton will pick up noise as the covering is very bad PURIST has the best shielding in the business.
rim OP
13 posts
 
thank you Gentlemen 
ljgerens
152 posts
 
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.






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oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
Silver sulfide is a semiconductor with a band gap of 1.08 eV and thus would reduce the conductivity.

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Party pooper.. it’s still pretty darn conductive.. Compared to spaghetti noodles, AY?  :-)

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terry9
2,211 posts
 
The whole point of using cotton as dielectric is to loosely cover the wire, so the main dielectric involved with the signal is air. Tight coverings exhibit dielectric absorption (DA), and teflon is the best solid, but not as good as air.

If you treat your cables with something, then that's the dielectric which a signal sees. If the dielectric is not air, you're defeating the purpose of a cloth dielectric.
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