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RE: Distortion measurements Solid core vs Multi strand

I agree more with cpotl on this issue, but I do commend Cousin Billy for his attempt to understand why he hears what he (and I) hear. That said, the posted data could equally as well be interpreted as "proof" of a slight superiority of stranded wire vs solid core wire, as the converse. Note that at certain frequencies or groups of frequencies, distortion is very slightly (probably inaudibly) lower for the stranded wire, but to say so would make it seem as though I endorse the methodology; I do not.

In my earliest days of moving over to solid core wire, I was told by Pierre Sprey of Maple Shade not only to use solid core but also to choose the thinnest possible gauge of solid core. My own experiments suggested that he was "right" (or at least that my ears and brain work the same as his). In fact, and paradoxically perhaps, I found that extreme low bass response seems to improve with very thin solid core wire vs thicker solid core wires of the same material. I tell myself that this has something to do with skin effect, but I have read too many articles positing that the skin effect is essentially irrelevant at audio frequencies.



Edits: 09/19/14

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