Originally Posted by
farflungstar
Without getting into cable wars - I've researched this and some think that the silver plating/skin effect leads to phase distortion. Pure is better.
Adey
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What is this strange new science of which you speak?
If you needed ultimate efficiency of power transfer at frequencies of around 2MHz then litz (shortened from litzendraht, German for woven or stranded wire) may increase efficiency, by minimising skin effect and proximity effect, such that there may be an improvement of maybe 2-6%... but bugger all effect at audio frequencies.
Phase distortion due to the metallic make up of a conductor is impossible.
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