Who is doing silver plugs to silver (only) wire to silver jacks? Is there any combo that can succinctly outperform silver everything?

I'm a fan of Dual turntables, which model do you have? I've got a 1249, 721, 1257, and a drawer full of parts from those and others I've owned, repaired, sold - 1219, 1229, 621, 1237 and a few other I can't recall. I modded most of the Duals to have female RCAs at the rear for swapping cables.

As far as silver goes, I made a set of RCA's a few years ago. I forget which cable I used for them. After trying them out, a friend mentioned adding a silver wire to them. I believe it was only on the ground side of the cable and it was a huge PIA feeding the silver wire into a sheath. I still use that interconnect between the table and Jolida JD9 (which uses silver wire internally). I can't recall specifically how it changed the sound, but it was good enough and I never went back and changed them.

I ordered silver upgrades on my Rachel SE34.6I @ ZP3, I just had my turntable restored a JVCQLY66F Direct drive but we did not change the RCA out put cable or the tonearm cable, it's the original JVC straight aluminum removable tube arm, I don't have the "S" curved arm anymore. I'd like to find some to change cartridges. I want to have the plinth redone so I will get the cabling and wiring changed to silver then too. I've got a year on line, right now now my system wouldn't notice a difference.

Arpin, I am also pleased to hear I am not the only one to have done this. I had read about guys having this done, taking time required to replace those tiny little cables and experiencing improvements.
I bought a kit with silver ends pre-crimped and it was meant to cut to length, came with extra crimps and silver bearing solder for the other end termination.

You have opened my mind to some regrets in that I did not continue the silver chain with my latest fumbling upgrade to external connections. I also wish I had known more about Teflon at the time of my first upgrade as well.

I can say that just the path from the cartridge to the built-in nickle plated internal connections I did at first was a huge difference. You described the improvement better than I can, but at first I felt like stepping back a bit to allow room for my "jaw to drop."
Then I tried to just pass it off as the pride of expended labor, ownership. I had taken the time and effort and had gotten this done and "rebuilt" the old hoss at the same time. I HAVE to like it, right? Sure I do, but the more I listened, I began to realize that my table now sounded like what I thought it had before, but smoother somehow.

So, I started trying to "break it,"  just to see if I was fooling myself.
I had also upgraded my cartridge during the silver upgrade, so I put the old cartridge back on, got it set and the smoothness and definition was still there.
I stuck with the old Grado for a few months before going back the my newer Stanton. This is a lot of older vintage gear I am talking about, but it is what I had.

Listening to a lot of classical back then and some albums were so different, it was like stepping from a cold shower into a warm bath. It was just right, like I thought it was before but just more right.
I can't describe the "sweetness" but it was not like oversweet, but the silver seemed to allow a place for the sweet to be with no after taste.

It's an old 1249 that works flawlessly due to some TLC and I now have an Ortofon Blue from a few years ago on it.

So, I'm not talking about high grade best of anything, here, but the silver definitely made a noticeable difference.

I want a CSP3 or a ZTPre next.

Funny you describe trying to break the sound. I did the same thing. I started playing some of my lowliest recordings, the ones with the most noise. Now at first they did sound much like how you described, smoother and more “correct”. I also do quite a bit of classical on my system, but also some jazz, new age, rock, and electronica. For some of the classical I could still hear break up at the top end on high dynamic passages at times. So it got me wondering if I should replace all the wiring inside my speakers, and inside my amplifier. Less sane heads prevailed and I rewired my speakers with 14ga copper for the wooofers, and 16ga copper for my tweeters all air gapped in Teflon. I had already switched over to 10ga air gapped copper for my external speaker wire and bought some Viborg solid copper bananas. But going inside the speakers and doing this replacement was totally wild. Even though I was only replacing four relatively short run wires the end result totally freaked me out. My speakers took on entirely new performance levels that I didn’t even know were possible. In the end I wound up replacing every single signal wire with air gapped solid core silver or copper inside Teflon. At this point I couldn’t not do this. The performance gains even on a 1.5inch 12ga stranded wire are insane; this was inside my amp and ran from the output stage to the banana terminals. I thought, there’s no way this can make a difference… replaced with some 12ga solid core silver and mind blown again.

I’ve never been a modder and never believed that wires matter. But what I hear is too pointed and notable. My children can hear the difference. It is something I will always do now. And for me personally, the sonic gains of this type of wiring is good enough that I don’t have much interest in more extensive upgrades with things like capacitors and inductors. Although I am ready to believe that those things matter too! It’s just that right now I’m enjoying the incredible smoothness and clarity of depth and detail that I never imagined was possible on my hifi. I was planning on replacing all of it until this discovery.

Arpin, you've improved your cables already and that can be eye/ear opening. Enjoy them as you have made them for a while.

I admire the fact that you have carried forward with your silver cabling so far through your system. Three times farther than what little bit impressed me with my own gear.

Not contradicting above, but if you're like some of us, the urge to tinker has not gone away just because of some great success, but rather, coming back around sooner than you think, because of that success.

Arpin, Live Music is where I grew up and where I spent a large part of my time, all the time I could, actually. Even made it my livelihood for eighteen years and about eight more years just helping out friends still in the business.

I can't compare this hobby with the real thing, but it is what I have these days. The music, live or canned is more important to me than the venues, so I reap all the joy I can from variety and quality of music.

The hobby interest takes the back seat when I hear music that stirs me, internally.
For me this works out OK, most of the time.
But, I have tickets to a metal band concert in October, so I have not shelved my needs completely, yet!

Then I'll return home and tinker some more.