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The last time I checked, the price of silver wasn't too bad. I've never seen "Solid Silver" terminations.I understand that gold might be too soft to make a solid termination (obvious cost factor too), but solid silver seems like a good idea to me.Bob
I believe Eichman Silver Bullets are solid silver.
One quick question: I'm looking for spade plugs to re-terminate my Usher Rapport Speaker cable, I went to an Audioquest dealer yesterday, he has both gold-plated and silver-plated plugs but he recommended gold-plated plugs. But I was thinking, if silver is a better conductor, why the hell is he saying that gold-plated is better??
Barry, If you want some Luminous spades, I got bunch of them. You can have them for free only if you will line me up a date with your friend's sister... Just kidding Barry, just let me know if you need some.
Actually, both Gold and Silver had excellent conductivity and, any realizable difference between the two is more likely due to the specific alloy of gold (it's impurity content) or, the base metal it is applied to or, the method of deposition (flash, spot weld or plated, diffusion, etc), or the actual contact area under a given force.
too many unknowns ...contact areavoltagecurrentintegrity of the thin gold surface in the contact areaexposure/contact of the base metalcorrosion of the base metal .. Copper, Silver, brass [zinc/copper]compostion of the female/male plugsquality of mechanical design of the plugsinteraction of different metals with the atmoshpere/humidity ... oxides, sulphides, chloridesconductivity of the products of corrosiontime If you don't give the plugs a clean every now and then, the last factor is probably going to override all the others.jules
If memory serves me right, the spades are more expensive than the cables that they are on.
Quote from: HChi on 15 Nov 2006, 03:27 amIf memory serves me right, the spades are more expensive than the cables that they are on.Maybe that's why they aren't very common. People don't want to mess with "maintenance" of their IC's.??Bob
Luckily silver oxide is still highly conductive, unlike other metal oxides.