Posts tagged 'Conductors'

Most speaker cables are made of copper. Some use silver. Van den Hul uses carbon. It is an unusual choice, and one that prompts a fair amount of scepticism from people encountering it for the first time. Can carbon really work as well as copper in a speaker cable? And if so, why do so few other manufacturers use it? Here is a clear-headed look at both materials and what the evidence suggests.