The two links are the same
If you look at the detailed description it states that it's 50 strands of UPOCC + 50 strands of UPOCC silver plated.
It also says "5N UPOCC silver-plated" in the description.
My mistake on the links, having trouble figuring out how to link Ali stuff. I meant this wire is the one i purchased
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002350509830.html with the bright copper at a length of 1.7m for $42+tax, which does not state about plating and this was the other wire i meant
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001786868630.html which is what you were referring to.. which does mention plating
I also asked if he could make a custom wire which would be similar to the 8core i ordered but have a dark copper wire that matches the thickness of the silver wire in my 8 core and in the full silver 8 cores that he lists here:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002042493770.html (which is said to be a strand diameter of 1.0mm) so it would flow more visually and weigh less, and after about 5 different ways of him trying to say he couldnt do it, and me asking why cant you just combine it with this wire:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001844114428.html which is also 1.0mm... he eventually stated he'd be willing to do it "
with a high quality 7n upocc copper wire". Thing is when you look at the splice of the wire in these listings, it causes me to see no reason to believe the last link i mentioned is any different of a wire from this wire:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001797053604.html or this wire:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001738261920.html which is said to be "
7n" and appears to just be different thicknesses of the same wire with different strand counts and strand thicknesses. It also just makes sense to me that a business would buy varying degrees of the same thing if "
it works". Sort of just going on a visual call, my history of doubting listing claims, as well as the fact theres plenty of fakery of varying degrees with these businesses that sell cheaper cables
That is where i base my thoughts. It seemed very odd to me that he'd be willing to do it with a "high quality 7n upocc wire", apparently one he doesnt have in any his listing, but not the 1.0mm copper one i linked. I have no reason to believe the one id receive if i ordered that custom wire of 1.0mm copper and 1.0mm silver, that it would be any different than this same 1.0mm wire:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001844114428.html i linked...
In my head, the custom wire i wanted to produce should be cheaper than the full silver 8 core, if it were the same length, since copper wire is the cheaper wire of the two. That only makes sense right? I did want the wire a bit longer as part of my custom order, and would have expected a price around maybe $30 give or take a few bucks (since the full silver is about $27, itd be half the amount of silver (say 13.50+ extra wire length cost), and half the 1.0mm copper wire which was about $13(say 6.50+extra wire length cost), but due to him wanting to use an alleged 7n wire thats different than the one in those listings, itd be $40+tax. I'd expect that if i wanted a full silver wire at 1.7m ($27 pure silver wire+40%wire length cost increase). But additionally, my initial 8 core custom purchase was a wire listed at $32, but was 40% longer, and yet the cost of the wire was less than a 40% increase in length which i agree with as i believe the more "bulk" you're buying of anything, the more the markdown should be. I have no problem paying extra for custom stuff or whatever, the situation just doesnt come across honest to me. Sure its only a potential extra $10/15 he'd make, but i dont put anything passed anyone to do. In messaging him i was also expressing excitedness in making a bunch of custom wires until he hit me with that, and i think he might have saw potential to make a little extra. He says its only possible with this 1.0mm 7n copper wire that he doesnt list. I could pay that, but id probably be convinced he gave me that same $13 wire at some "
i got ya to pay more ya stupid audiophile" markup lol.
Sure these wires seem decent, its awesome you can ask for customizations, better made than many at this price, and im rambling on about a $10 difference but, i just cant help but want as much trust as i can have in the business im purchasing from and i feel like im seeing tiny red flags.
Only realized all this after i ordered but it just felt shady... like i almost wanna tear this 8 core up and see if theres anything other than copper in the copper strands but im too broke to be an experimental audiophile like that... or i guess too broke to be an audiophile anyway lol
Edit: i cannot for the life of me figure out how to post these aliexpress links... every link i type on here goes to the front page when im copying a direct url and its not linking to the item. When i click my links it takes me to the front page of aliexpress but when i copy and paste into my browser it opens them fine, maybe try copy pasting to see what i mean?
Sorry for the wall of text
And then of course theres this wire:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001874009159.html for $13 which visually appears to be a 1.0mm(maybe thinner cant tell and little to no details in listing) version of the first wire that i linked and purchased, it mentions plating, and yet no dark copper version or one mixed with "pure silver" variant which is what he tells me is $40
I also thought silver was supposed to be lower resistance than copper right? Yet in rikuduogoku's database im seeing almost all the pure silver wires have higher resistance. Could it not be real silver? I dont know enough about readings like that
