Re: silver wire for interconnect leads?

"ajhclarke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <blackheathens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> I found a great thread on this group which produced an
> informative article about the use of 20 gsm silver wire
> for making your own high- quality audio interconnects.

> Without getting into the debate over coathangers versus
> high-end audio leads, can anyone tell me why this article
> stresses using soft silver wire and says don't use
> Sterling?

Annealed (soft)  wire has lower resistance.

Sterling is an alloy of  92.5% silver and the rest usually copper.  Alloys

tend to have finer crystalene structures and therefore more resistance.

> Here in Australia, Sterling wire is at very least a
> guarantee of reasonable quality -- how can one be sure
> that plain 'silver' wire really is silver without too
> many impurities? Would anyone know of a source here for
> very pure silver wire which would meet this audio
> requirement?

For reference, we usually use 99.99% or better pure copper wire. By that 
standard Sterling silver is very impure stuff.

http://home.san.rr.com/nessengr/techdata/metalresis.html

seems to say that Sterling Silver is a little less conductive than pure 
copper.