WHY ARE MANY CABLES MADE WITH SILVER PLATED COPPER INSTEAD OF SOLID SILVER OR BARE COPPER?
Eager to cash in on what is perceived as an easy and lucrative business, part-time hobbyists posing as “cable companies” continue to flood the internet and classified adds with “sensibly priced”, home-made silver cables. Prospective buyers need to read advertisements very carefully since it is often not very apparent that many of these “bargain silver cables” are actually only made with silver plated copper wire, not solid silver. Often slyly advertised simply as “Silver cables”, vague and misleading terminology has been created to give the impression that some groundbreaking, exotic manufacturing process has been invented, such as “silver saturation”, “silver-clad”, “silver hybrid” etc. The reality is silver-plated copper wire is simply a mass produced staple of the commercial cable industry, and readily available at any surplus electronics outlet or parts catalog. It is far less expensive than Teflon co-extruded solid silver wire which is only produced on an individual basis for high
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