Building CMOY, Silver solder - yes or no?

[Celeron_Phreak]

I stopped by Radio Shack to pick up some audio jacks and the PCB for the CMOY I'm building and figured I'd grab some silver solder while I was there. I bought two types cause I wasn't sure which I should use. So here's what I picked up:

http://www.radioshack.com/product.a...011_009_007_001&product_id=64-025&site=search

http://www.radioshack.com/product.a...011_009_007_001&product_id=64-025&site=search

Which should I use for my CMOY? I'm not sure which would give me the best performance, being new to the whole DIY audio scene.

 

[Korndog]

won't make any difference, but silver sounds cooler

 

[Cyrix_2k]

Korndog's right Just a note though, the radioshack solder seems to eat tips... I use their silver solder + their 30w soldering iron + their 15w tips and they get eaten by the solder very quickly

 

[Celeron_Phreak]

I'm not TO worried about it. My dad has this Weller PU120 that I use. He has about 34 spare tips from back when he worked for Hewlett-Packard and they supplied him with parts/accessories. I won't be using the silver solder TO much, so eating this tip away any time soon doens't seem to be to big of a problem yet.

 

[Emon]

Solder has no bearing on sound quality. Unless it's made of wax or something. Standard 60/40 is fine.

 

[AMD Phreak]

See, I told you so

Use some Kester and some flux remover when finished soldering and you will have something that looked like it came from the factory.

 

[Emon]

Yeah, eutectic solders are nice, but not necessary. If you have no solder, some 63/37 is a good investment, but if you have 60/40 lying around, just use that.