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BCostigan:
The silver ones are referring to the housing not the contacts.    I think either the black with gold contacts or black with silver contacts would be fine.  Most people get gold contacts but when the "best" cables use silver I'm not sure why.

fozzy:
Ok i'm confused now


Resistance.  Silver is less resistant.

silver: 1.59 x10^-8 =  .0000000159
copper: 1.7 x10^-8 = .000000017
gold: 2.44 x10^-8 =   .0000000244

But Gold/Gold connections form a molecular bond which would lower resistance significantly.

So can I assume for MK012's and a UA5 (both silver i believe) Gold would actually be worse (higher resistance no molecular bonding) than silver (less overall resistance).

jpschust:
yah but you arent figuring for oxidation over time.  all in all i think the gold thing is such hype- the only material over silver that i really find to be any better is copper just because as it oxidizes its resistance decreases and it actually becomes a better conductor

Ed.:
i ordered the black with gold contacts and they sent me the silvers, maybe its fate.

fozzy:
I went with the silvers, how long does it usually take for markertek to get stuff out?

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