I've been out of DIY for a while and what would you call oxygen free continious cast copper wire if it is only a single strand of magnet wire? What about continiuosly extruded like the Western Electric stuff with the paper cover called Celonese from days gone past when they twisted a pair of different guage for speaker cable, got some off a WE speaker used for a projector by the military of all things. Celonese is the of all things. It looks like it could be silk or something but it is paper. I have spools of wire and the Vampire magnet wire makes good interconnects, I have made speaker cables out of the WE stuff, all these using a braid called a Litz, which for speaker cables you supposedly don't want to use them on SS gear because of capacitance. Could be fairy tales for all I know. Both wires sound good in the right place, like for point to point under the chassis I would use the Vampire for signal wire while the WE in the PS, just because it seems the right way to do things. Braiding is fine as long as it doesn't add or take away anything you don't want or do. But hey, I don't think skin effect is everything or we could use plated steel, so I think for plugs gold over copper ought to be better than gold over brass because there is tin mixed into the copper, but then what about the tin in solder,(?) or do you like silver, only how pure, what kind of solder, silver plugs,(?) but maybe gold plated so there is no oxidizing but supposedly that isn't as bad with silver but is death by signal loss for copper, unless you tin it, am I going crazy or is the world of audio gone mad?
I noticed that we are not allowed to use bad words in any posts. Is there a list of these bad words posted somewhere so that we can know for sure, are they the 7 words that George Carlin told us about something like 40 years ago? Do we use our own judgement, can we type words that truly mean exactly what the supposedly bad word means only it isn't exactly the bad word? Did the flames roar so hot in this place that we are to be treated like 5th graders when it comes to language. What about the names of some of the female characters in the James Bond movies? Double meanings?WEll, Trump is about to be roasted, unfortunatly it isn't past midnight and some of the words will be bleeped out, some of the words are from old English and have meant the same thing for about a thousand years and are in the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language. Maybe we should write a letter to the editor. The English speaking English the same way for so long, not on this board they don't. Talley Ho!
Thatch