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RE: OK, forget video (TV)!

Valid question, but musical audio listening is in the realm of aesthetics, and not evaluated by listeners in direct technical terms. The goal structures are entirely different.

Let's remember that some trick wire has been developed for commercial applications such as oxygen free copper for power distribution, litz for VLF, silver wire for high Q coils, etc. etc.

There is very little wire in a cell phone. Not a good market. Wire is becoming as obsolete as the knob and toggle switch.

I know a couple Korean PhD physicists who are extruding plates made out of monocrystal silver which they then laser cut into wire for audio.

We tried it. It was OK but not mind bending.

The grant supporting the research is a Korean govt technology incubator foundation.

In any event, I'd want to talk to guys like that to see what I can learn about materials in wire and their potential effects on signal transmission. I suspect that deep down at micro levels there is all sorts of stuff going on--boundary effects, magnetic properties, who knows what-- and some things might only appear at super macro levels like cross continental transmission.

You and I, we're just guessing. For this job, you would need materials scientists and actual physicists whio specialize in this field. Not a job for the anthropologist, this one.

As for the musical "sound" of wire, can you think of any commercial application outside of specialist audio where anybody would care let alone pay extra??





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