Forest 18 Long-Length High Speed 18Gbps HDMI 2.0b CableSOLID 0. 5% SILVER CONDUCTORS Solid conductors minimize the harmful effects of both electrical and magnetic strand to strand interaction. For digital cables, whose signals are of such high frequency that they travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor, increasingly thick layers of silver plating are applied to AudioQuests Long Grain Copper (LGC) conductors to further improve Noise Dissipation. Placing the superior metal on the outside