Gold is less conductive than copper. Stuff is plated with it for "ooh shiny pretty" and rust prevention.
Jace Flores
I can't stand having cables that aren't entirely matte black in my field of view, so I had to go a little of my way the last time I needed to buy some.
Jason Scott
Even cheap cables used to be coaxial type and good enough maybe a decade ago, but nowadays it seems to be difficult to find anything but absolute shit with some aluminum clad steel-bullshit conductor and and zero shielding cheaply.
Joshua Johnson
They're not if you find the right seller retard.
Asher Fisher
>Is it materials (doubtful), R&D, advertising, just the fact that audiophiles are retarded? The really expensive ones (like Audioquest) are just a grift to extract money from audiophile boomers. The market they target are the people who argue on the stevehoffman forums that their $400 usb cable sounds better.
The slightly more expensive cables are usually build to withstand some abuse, they wont sound any better either.
William Howard
they're coated in gold to prevent corrosion you retard
Juan Carter
Just buy some nice OFC copper cables with the right gauge for your distance. It doesn't get much better than that unless they're made out of pure gold or something
Daniel Flores
I just said that, cutie.
Hudson Kelly
You probably can't hear a difference between copper and aluminum. Make recordings through 25 feet of each with everything else the same, make a diff, crank it up to 11, and you won't hear shit.
Carson Peterson
He could have answered that in seven different ways in his post. Fucking kys
Levi Bailey
>gauge lol
Isaac Turner
I don't know what you mean by high end cables, but gold-plated cables are meant for regularly connecting/disconnecting so the contacts wouldn't wear off. If you have a stationary setup, they're completely useless.
Oliver Hill
They're gold plated as gold is inert and so will not cause electrochemical corrosion or, in extreme cases, cold welding.
It's objectively better for all setups, whether dynamic or static.
Jaxson Barnes
Solution, go to thrift store and buy old RCA cables.
Daniel Richardson
Even that isn't expensive.
Luis Martinez
idk what sort of current you pull through RCA cables but I'm sure none of those are areal issue
Ethan Sanchez
They literally aren't worth their weight in gold.
Wyatt Hughes
An analoge signal (like music) needs/benefits from higher quality cables. This isn't just on or off like HDMI. It needs high quality plating if it gives a higher quality signal
Luis Campbell
>I can't stand having cables that aren't entirely matte black in my field of view a bit too much blacked, you have watched my friend