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In the Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread)
Post Subject: Napoleon, arsenic and daily breadPosted by Paul S on: 6/29/2008
Adrian, I specifically do not want to use wire to "compensate" for systemic problems.  Like some pathetic believer, I have long held that the "best" wire would be "transparent".  Since that appears increasingly unlikely, I suppose I am now after the most interesting compromise between the lesser of weevils and maximum content.

My own experience with silver coated copper had nothing to do with expections, as far as I know; it just was not good.  I found it to be fundamentally dis-integrated, with cartoon-ish stratification and unbearable noise.  And it only got worse over time...  the proto-typical non-starter.  And, you may have heard, even others who loved it initially eventually wound up talking lawsuits.  Feh, already...

But thre's always Hope in the Unknown.  No way I would have guessed from either "common knowledge" or "common sense" the difference in sound between the Mundorf silver versus their silver-and-gold caps.  By this, I mean to say that I realize that this idea of mine is rooted in and guided by the most ephemeral of practical flim-flam.  But at the same time, I have the stuff I need to do it onhand, and I am obviously OCD, with the attention span of a fruit fly.

Best regards,
Paul S

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