I was looking to build myself a headphone amplifyer for my headphones, and thought that a good source to look would be www.head-fi.org, so I started reading up topics in the DIY section, and fell onto this:
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I long ago read all kinds of articles/ads/interviews on high-end cable construction. One of the things often referred to was "skin effect" -- the basic idea was that the current flow in the wire tended to occur mostly on the "skin" (outside edge) of the wire rather than the core.
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it would explain a lot about why different platings impart different sonic signatures on cables.
Anyhow, the proof is in the listening... I generally agree with the earlier post that there are clearly audible differences between silver and copper wire of the same diameter, and that the silver-plated copper I've tried has been something of a bit of a middle-ground. But I'm sure there are varying qualities of this -- i.e. what is the purity and the thickness of the silver (or the copper for that matter).
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All I know is that different cable materials and construction do indeed offer very different sonic signatures. To my ear, solid core high-purity silver has always been the ultimate in terms of hearing clarity and detail in recordings, but it's not always desirable (for instance when the combination of your recordings, source, amp, and speakers/phones already tend towards a "bright" tonal balance).
Many other articles like this one were posted there, so I just wanted to say,[...]
it would explain a lot about why different platings impart different sonic signatures on cables.
Anyhow, the proof is in the listening... I generally agree with the earlier post that there are clearly audible differences between silver and copper wire of the same diameter, and that the silver-plated copper I've tried has been something of a bit of a middle-ground. But I'm sure there are varying qualities of this -- i.e. what is the purity and the thickness of the silver (or the copper for that matter).
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All I know is that different cable materials and construction do indeed offer very different sonic signatures. To my ear, solid core high-purity silver has always been the ultimate in terms of hearing clarity and detail in recordings, but it's not always desirable (for instance when the combination of your recordings, source, amp, and speakers/phones already tend towards a "bright" tonal balance).
Thank you HydrogenAudio, for the Terms of service. Especially #8 -- keep us from the charlattans of pseudo-acoustics.
, even if I had no scientific evidence to back up my claims. 
Yes, thank god for the TOS #8 it's something to live by.
, i failed the last one. One can see artifacts in both, the jpeg's (diffuminated) and the gif's ( dots).