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RE: Connex The Natural One

Posted by Duster (M) on July 1, 2020 at 13:18:01

In Reply to: RE: Connex The Natural One posted by Ric on June 29, 2020 at 06:22:39:

While the ability to use an air permeable, natural cotton dielectric for a tin plated copper conductor is of benefit, both silver plated and tin plated conductors should be considered hybrid conductors with the variables of strand count and plating thickness which affect the presentation, one way or another. While the strand count of an unplated bare copper conductor also affect the presentation of an audio signal, the tin plating creates a lower-conductivity barrier between the copper strands, which effectively creates a sound of its own. This is not the case with stranded unplated copper nor solid core conductors that involve a single type of metal within the signal path.

It's also important to differentiate the sonic signatures of a stranded silver plated copper conductor vs. a solid core pure silver conductor. The popularity of a silver plated cable tends to be based on false detail if not etching of the signal produced by the silver plating, not unlike that of a signal processor which tends to make everything sound the same while listening to one source material to the next, which is the opposite of transparency. Pure silver conductors may involve the myth of sounding bright, but this is not true to those who actually have direct experience of such a thing. In fact, very smooth sounding treble is what listeners tend to find when evaluating pure silver audio cables.

The sonic signature of tin plated stranded copper conductors also tends to involve a certain sameness of sound, which is different than that of silver plated stranded copper conductors, but in a manner that some folks also find to be more enjoyable than the single metallurgy of unplated bare copper or pure silver conductors, for that matter. The notion that a tin plated copper conductor sounds more natural than pure copper or pure silver might be a new myth in the making. It should simply be considered a sonic signature that some listeners prefer based on their experience of other types of cables placed in their particular audio systems, and based on their own listening tastes.

my 2 cents

Edits: 07/01/20

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