Nope, it acted exactly as you'd expect from the materials' positions on the triboelectric series. The Teflon-silver audiophile fad is wack.
Maybe that is so you will then need cable lifters to prevent movement and noise.
Yeah, it's wonderful how the high end pyramid works.
Turn opinion into fact the fast way.....
Some people obvious don´t like the combination from silver and teflon in an audio interconnect (or other field where triboelectricity and microphony effects could do harm) because of the so-called triboelectric series. It´s not a quantitative information but rather a qualitative one where in general the triboelectric effect gets bigger if two materials (contacting each other) are more seperated.
So from this (quite raw) qualitative list at a first glance, yes the combination silver/teflon isn´t a good choice wrt triboelectricity, but what metal would be a better choice?
Answer from the list....copper wouldn´t be better either (same position in the list as silver). So what about another insulator; what about the most often (probably) used pvc?
It´s place in the list is higher as teflon´s, but not that much, so is it really better and to what degree? Unfortunately you can´t say because the lists don´t provide the informations needed for that.
And while you obviously don´t need detailed informations (just look at a list and add some strong belief and you´ll get every answer you want
) in reality it doesn´t seem to be that simple, because it depends on many variables.
For many insulator materials used in cables there exists a relationship between the so-called workfunction of the metal and the charge density that results, but teflon is special in this regard as the charge densitiy is independent from this workfunction. But in experiments it was found that the charge densitiy was dependent on the specific teflon (means supplier/manufacturer is a variable or more precisely the fabrication process) and the treatment of material (rawness, pollution and so on).
Taking the actual information available into consideration, it depends strongly on several variables like form (tube or tape) and the specific formulation (which kind of PTFE, pure or for example air filled) and the resulting range is quite large. In fact the range is so broad that you can produce a cable from silver/copper and pvc that is much more worse wrt triboelectricity than a carefully designed and manufactured cable made from silver and teflon.
But the opposite is true too.......
Edit: (tube or
tape) ......