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I'd have to to back and look and I'm not going to (I'm counting AES papers at the minute, you can figure I'm swamped for this week), but I'd swear I said "power loss".


As to "Maybe your codec work ...", if that's not a pure ad hominem slam than I haven't seen one.

It's really simple for MOST wire cases (I'm not talking about power plants here), it's effectively "linear" over the audio frequency range. (Yes, there are cases otherwise, but they don't apply under most settings, to say the least.)

The point is, though, that skin effect is a reduction in admittance of the wire, not some odd distortion mechanism.

The "opposite current" is simply "adding" to the original current to create "no" current, i.e. the current does not penetrate to the middle of the wire.

There are SOME cases where unpleasant things CAN happen, but they are generally not very notable at most audio frequencies.

What's more, even when you increase the wire size beyond the skin depth, you're STILL reducing the total resistance, just by not as much as you might expect from the total area of the conductor, AND unless you've put some kind of semiconductor in the middle of the cable, that's it.




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