Silver or copper cables?

Silver if your components are laid back, polite, soft and you want a seat in row "D". Copper if you want a a fuller richer sound from leaner solid state or bright-lean tubes(some KT88 amps). Copper has more weight in the bass, fuller midrange and slightly slower pitchin general. Also puts in row "M". Silver is faster, tighter-leaner bass, can tip up in the upper midrange and lean out the voices too much. These are gross generalizations, and some copper designs can sound a lot like silver in the bass and in speed of pitch. Listen to mellow copper like MIT, Monster, neutral copper like Cardas(one of my favorites) and various silver designs. The one that makes your foot tap on a wide range of music is the one. Perhaps Brad will tap a little too. The bottom line is there are a lot of good designs in both copper and silver. Listen before you buy... Jeff

Zip cord doesn't come in silver and there is no reason to use anything else.

Hey Steve: And all SS amps sound alike unless they are malfunctioning, right?

ALL CABLES AND AMPS SOUND THE SAME DEKAY!!!! Well as long as you don't turn them on they do....Or mabe they sound the same when dropped from 5 feet? No wait if it is a flat cable the thud wouldn't have as much weight would it? I do find that if I swing my Transparent cable wildly above my head it does sound a lot like zip cord though. ( of course hold on the the networked end. )

Perhaps someone would like to provide some scientific backup for why speaker wires of adequate size could sound different.