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CJSF

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chebby said:
CJSF said:
altruistic.lemon said:
Hey mate, silver gold and copper are the best conductors. Nickel comes after them.

Not what I was told . . . however, I stand corrected?

There is a table part way down this page.

Obviously I have been missinformed . . . Will I bother to chang the interconect plugs :? I doubt it, easier, and cheaper to remake the conections every so often.

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chebby said:
CJSF said:
altruistic.lemon said:
Hey mate, silver gold and copper are the best conductors. Nickel comes after them.

Not what I was told . . . however, I stand corrected?

There is a table part way down this page.

Interesting that lead and tin is even lower down the list, wonder where that leaves us with all those solder joints in our hifi equipment and in the phono plugs . . . ?

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CJSF said:
chebby said:
CJSF said:
altruistic.lemon said:
Hey mate, silver gold and copper are the best conductors. Nickel comes after them.

Not what I was told . . . however, I stand corrected?

There is a table part way down this page.

Interesting that lead and tin is even lower down the list, wonder where that leaves us with all those solder joints in our hifi equipment and in the phono plugs . . . ?

Aren't you supposed to use silver solder for audio connections? Not that it makes much difference I suspect...
 

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The_Lhc said:
CJSF said:
chebby said:
CJSF said:
altruistic.lemon said:
Hey mate, silver gold and copper are the best conductors. Nickel comes after them.

Not what I was told . . . however, I stand corrected?

There is a table part way down this page.

Interesting that lead and tin is even lower down the list, wonder where that leaves us with all those solder joints in our hifi equipment and in the phono plugs . . . ?

Aren't you supposed to use silver solder for audio connections? Not that it makes much difference I suspect...

Certainly a high quality silver content solder is desirable and used on cartridge tags, sometimes . . . but can you see the hifi manufacturers using anything other than bog standard solder on all those thousands of PC board joints they make every minuite 'by machine'? One suspects a few specialist one man bands might but this is the real world where cost is paramount?

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