Cardas Soldering Wire Quad Eutectic Silver Solder with rosin flux 1/4 lbs (113g) roll

Great stuff. Always stays shiny and the audible difference is there.

Absolutely great solder, flows easy, good cleanup, sounds fantastic in my Bottlehead Crack. A clean precise solder for audio applications.

Da bomb! Great solder and surprisingly decent price compared to similar quality solder such as kestler, considering that the Cardas brand usually comes with a silly audiophile premium price. It’s very thin, but if you need thicker just twist it together into a thicker braid.

If you have any suspicion this solder is all just hype, you are correct. Dont make the same mistake I did, and just get something cheaper. Its not horrible, sure. What I cant get over is that I spend over $20 a small roll of solder only to finish my project with the Radio Shack brand solder Ive used for a year. Thats because while this solder does flow, everything else just flows better.

I have probably soldered close to 1,000,000 electronic circuits and tens of thousands of custom fabricated hobby craft joints in my life. The reliable old 60-40 solder served me well on electronic circuits and then the stronger silver-content solder worked well for craft work. But the silver solder I used for craft work was very high heat and if I tried using it on electronic circuits it more often than not destroyed the delicate copper traces on expensive circuit boards. The Cardas product is a quality silver-based solder that melts at far more reasonable - although still quite high - temperature and provides stronger and IMHO better sounding connection than 60-40 solder does. Simply re-sweating any existing soldered electronic joint may yield audible improvements providing that the components being soldered can tolerate this higher heat [i.e., used with caution on temperature-sensitive and surface-mount devices]. Will this ALWAYS make things sound better? Probably not. But heres the way I look at it. Eliminating problems in the long audio chain between the signal source and your ears is a tedious process. If you have a particular piece of gear already in pieces on your bench, why not eliminate a potentially weak-ink in the audio chain by using better solder? The cost is small and the return could be large. If you always do what youve done, you will always get what you got. If you want something different, then you must try something new. Give this a try; Im pretty sure that it will surprise you.

great

the best in the west by my test

I grew up in the 50s and 60s and took Electronics Shop in High School and did projects before that so Ive spent countless hours with a soldering gun or iron in my hands. Im used to old school solder and had some worries that newer stuff would be difficult. Its not. This solder performs extremely well. Some of that is possibly due to a decent soldering station, but even on a cheap throwaway gun it handles just fine.

Perfect! This is just what I needed. Thanks!

Good stuff! Makes for nice, clean connections. Easy to use. Easier and neater by far than the nameless junk I bought at HD. No comparison. Flows at a good temp and is very consistent to work with. Recommended for electrical work. This diameter worked well for me when I soldered together my two harness halves for the new head unit in my Jeep. I will not go back to crimped connectors after finally getting set up to solder my connections properly. Recommended!