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RE: What is the evidence...

Part of my point was that, leaving out the never-will-end debate around copper vs silver, there are "scientific" reasons to wonder about stranded copper wire, insofar as oxidized copper will not conduct as well as unoxidized copper. Thus in stranded form there is the possibility for diodic effects between and among strands where there may be patches of any single strand that have begun to oxidize. I was also kind of wondering why one would choose very heavy gauge solid core wire as a comparator; there are those who believe that the narrower the gauge of solid core wire, the better. However, in speaker wire, one needs current-carrying capacity, so the solution is to parallel runs of individually insulated solid core wire, which also avoids the potential for diodic effects between/among strands. Wire preferences are always provocative, and I don't think anyone really knows for sure the whole story around why one type sounds different from another.

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