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Re: ELF Custom Cables

Posted by GaryAR (A) on February 9, 2004 at 08:20:22

In Reply to: Re: ELF Custom Cables posted by audiophile36@aol.com on February 8, 2004 at 11:10:51:

Here is my concern, the cables sell for $50 yet by weight the silver alone should cost nearly that much. Tell me if there is a problem with my calculations:

Silver market value: $6.29/oz (http://www.kitco.com/market/)
Density of Silver: $10490 kg/m^3 = 0.00001049 kg/mm^3
Cable gage: 18
Cable diam: 1.02mm
Length: 8ft = 2438mm
Total Length: 19507mm (8 runs of 8 ft.)
Cross-sectional area: 0.817 mm^2 (Pi * r^2)
Total Volume: 15940 mm^3 (Area * Length)
Total Weight: 0.1672 kg = 0.368 lbs. = 5.886 oz.
Total Cost of Silver: $37.02

And keep in mind that's unprocessed, unrefined silver. Silver in wire form usually costs about $10/oz., and that puts the price of the silver in these cables up to about $59. Adding to that the cost of the jacket, spades, heatshrink, and labor, I don't see how it could be possible for them to be made out of real silver for this price.

Having said that, the cables do sound really nice and I think they're about equal to my TMC gold label speaker cables (which are about $200 retail). They look good, they're terminated nicely, and they sound good. They're not bad cables by any stretch, but I just can't imagine how at this price the metal is actually silver. If it is, then these cables are the deal of the century.

-Gary

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