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...that's a great question that is usually followed by silence when it's asked. I bring it up whenever I see someone posting in the "tube" forums about how audible and bad steel conductors are. There's also the issue of steel chassis ground returns in most vintage and some current equipment. When there is a response, it usually circles around something like the active tube elements are above the curie temp (they mostly aren't) so not magnetic, or that they've been "cryoed" and so again not an issue and again not so.

My own personal experience is that I tend to avoid magmetic conductors but mostly because they're usually mechanically stiff and difficult to work with. Sonic differences esp when conductors are short and in tube circuits are pretty much non-existent from my POV. YMMV


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