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I thought this article was quite interesting myself.
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Quite right mate, I spent 10 years working in a jewelers when I left school and like you said earlier about cleaning plugs, we had to clean the silver jewelery every week as it went brown with the strong lights in the window making it tarnish quicker!
At least I know where to buy decent silver cleaner and cleaning cloths from!
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Platinum I have no idea but even if it was top a 1 metre cable would probably cost 10 times more than the Nordost Odin? I think carbon is used as an insulator is it not?
Palladium is used for interconnects to devastating effect, this is one such beast below, costs £3800 for a 1 metre pair:-
Hi David,
Indeed. And I suspect that oxidised silver is still a better conductor than, say, untarnished Rhodium?Mark,
Oxidized silver is still a good conductor, no need to strip them down at all.
Interesting chart, btw!
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Interesting what was said in that stuff you put up though Dave, i'm not sure if they are stating that oxidized silver is better than gold (as gold doesn't at all) but it says oxidized silver is better than the same but copper.. Click it
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I'm not sure what to make of it, i guess if you have two clean silver terminals & connect them together where they are joined it won't oxidise, just stop air getting to it will prevent it
I'm still going to test it out on some totally oxidised 925 standard silver & see if there is more resistance than with no tarnish
Bests, Mark
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I really don't like the sound of VDH Carbon cables. I remember when they first came to market. The shop I worked in brought some in...Firsts and Seconds....yuck
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I am a mine of use(less) ful information depending on your point of view, the conductivity chart is on my website and had been downloaded by a LOT of people so has the UK mains supply, see for yourself if you need some toilet reading.