In the last 25 years or so it’s rather easy to narrow down wiring. Roughly 80 some odd percent of wiring is what’s generically called base level in Sales and marketing. Wires here fall as copper, tin plated copper, and copper plated aluminium. ~29 percent remaining is aluminium. That fraction of a point is ultra high end stuff. Not available to the public, and not available to general consumer computer companies.
Falcon uses silver core copper cables for some board to board interconnect wires. And hand built from scratch companies like HiD and U-audio have contracts with ultra high end companies; using solid gold and silver wiring.
The fastest way to figure out wiring is to get a good filet knife (cuisinart ceramics are my choice). Simply cut the wire ends on a long angle. Boardsort like most companies takes wires as one flat rate. Some higher level companies take the time to sort wires into grades based on core and plate metals. #s 1-4.
The highest tier pre-refinery companies wil have dozens of classes. But there only 20 or so companies nation wide. All principally buying from smaller lower level yards.
You’re chances of coming across gold or silver (or other PM) solid wires in the wild are nearly zero. The most common of these custom solutions are gold, platinum, silver, and tin plated silver. But people, no matter how clueless, don’t simply toss this stuff or the system it’s in in the trash. These wires cost roughly $50-$200 per foot.
I have a single solid gold core component cable for my turntable to the tuner. And four solid gold core speaker cables from tuner to speakers.I like my analogue sound! The “rca” cable was $$350 for 18 inches. The speaker wire was apx $100 per meter per wire. You won’t find silver wire, let alone gold or better, in consumer systems.
There’s solid gold USB. audio, HDMI, etc. It exists but you won’t find it in an IBM or HP.
Unless you have a boutique system (CyberPower, iBuyPower, Falcon, AVD…) there’s minimal benefit in sorting it at all. With higher end systems you can hand a filleted wire to the scale master and say ‘50lbs plated copper core’ and maybe get a higher rate. Silver wire is non-existent after mid 90s outside of custom system builds. And your looking at contemporary prices of 50K or more for the systems with it.
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