Gold And Silver Wires Speakers

Because silver only provides a relatively minor increase in conductivity despite being much more expensive silver is reserved for sensitive systems and specialty electronics.

Gold and silver wires speakers. Most people use the gold or reddish copper wire as the positive as it is the red terminal and the silver or non colored lead to the negative as it is black. For example negative silver wires are paired with positive gold wires. If you accidentally switch them its no problem it creates a small difference in the speakers that most people cant distinguish. You could spend 10 000 on silver braided speaker cables but you re going to get a much more significant change in sound spending 1 000 on a new amp or 500 on a new dac.

In the case of teflon wire you have always seen silver as either the sole metal present or at least as the plating. Fine silver round wire can be purchased from jewelers silver crafters and other sources including our sister site tempo electric. The silver is necessary to counteract the corrosive process for coating teflon to the wire. Silver is also the best conductor of electricity as shown by the following chart of bulk resistance measured in micro ohms centimeter.

Alternatively if you have a black wire it ll be negative if the other wire is red or positive if the other wire is striped. If speaker wire is silver and. All you need to do is connect one color to the red on both and the other to black on both or whatever other color it is mine are red and black. Though silver wire is more conductive than copper wire of the same length copper wire is the global standard.

This is only visible if the insulation is clear or see through so that color can be distinguished. Purity should be at least 999 three nines but keep in mind that much of the gold and silver you may purchase has been refined from existing stock and is not necessarily virgin or newly mined. In dealing with speaker wires the positive speaker wire will be silver in color.