Before SCHNERZINGER had the technology applications of ATOMIC BONDING at its disposal, we experimented for a very long time with countless different alloys, i.e. the mixing of different metals, to find the best conductor material.
The SCHNERZINGER development results confirmed our initial assumption that the electrons in the gaps between the grains of the crystalline metal structure “swirl”, causing related tones to be torn apart and distorted.
Attempts to “fill up” the grain spaces of tonally inadequate silver structures by adding copper, gold, bronze, palladium or aluminum, for example, in order to dampen the disharmonious tonal spectrum, led to an apparent error reduction in terms of the swirling and resonance behavior of the material structure, but:
The different “conduction speeds” of the various metals resulted in a compromise that was at first partially appealing, but tonally colored and clearly limiting. This stood in the way of a far-reaching, unrestrained and, above all, simultaneous transmission of information – the ideal image of a pure impulse chain.
To illustrate this, imagine a sprinter running the 100 m course 10 m over rubber and 10 m over asphalt. He gets out of step and his time deteriorates.
Physically, an alloy reduces the conductivity of pure metals and thus “dampens” their better transmission capacity. Thus, by reducing the conductivity, the disharmonious timbre of an inadequately prepared metal structure can be dampened
There is no doubt that alloys can be used to cover up the tonal deficits of a suboptimal material structure – but this is not what SCHNERZINGER wants, because:
In our experience, the better conductivity of pure metals always leads to improved transmission quality compared to the best alloys – but not if:
- a) the preparation of the crystalline material structure is not sufficient,
- b) the inadequacies of other cable components do not allow for sonic progress and
- c) the higher conductivity emphasizes the shortcomings of the other cable components.
Reducing the enormous conductivity of silver by adding a proportion of gold, copper, palladium, aluminum etc. in order to attenuate the tonally discordant spectrum of an inadequately prepared crystalline metal structure did not correspond to our ideas of an optimal solution.
This compromise was therefore not a real solution for us – a realization that laid the foundation for the development of “ATOMIC BONDING” in 2003.