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Julf

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does pure silver cable transfers full audio signal,full music, and copper,gold,and other metals just tame some freequencies to create colored sound?
Silver makes the sound brighter and shinier, copper makes the sound warmer, and gold richer. It is called sympathetic magic.
 

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The different resistivities of the various metals is too small to make a difference in living room lengths of speaker wire. It's mostly just plain old DCR that makes a difference, if any, in sound, and those difference are small. There is nothing sonically exotic about any of the metals.
 

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The different resistivities of the various metals is too small to make a difference in living room lengths of speaker wire.
And of course that could be totally compensated for by using a slightly different gauge of wire.
 
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