I was thinking about cables and conductivity of the signal, speaker cables in particular. Please feel free to comment, I'm trying to understand this a little better. So here goes:
Assumption: The speaker cable terminates into a connector. The connector, lets say a banana plug, is crimped onto the cable.
Observations:
#1. The contact points between them are the inner crimped sleeve and the outer surface(skin) of the cable - correct?
#2. Lets take a silver coated copper cable. Does this not mean that ALL the signal transfer is through the silver skin?
#3. And if it was a regular copper cable, the transfer would be through the 'copper' skin in this case?
#4. If 2&3 are correct, then the use of a stranded cable should have more surface area in contact as opposed to a solid-core cable, and would be superior in theory?
Question:
If, and a big If at that, all of the above are correct - a simplification - then the OCC process that I read about should offer major benefits for cabling, as well as reducing the advantages offered by coated cables by having longer crystalline structure of the copper(or silver).
Also, the pure carbon conductors having a long crystal structures from VanDen Hul should offer the same advantage.
This whole line of thought originated AFTER I ordered silver coated speaker cables and was trying to think about terminating them with Z-plugs and wondered if crimping was better than soldering.
Cheers,
SP
Assumption: The speaker cable terminates into a connector. The connector, lets say a banana plug, is crimped onto the cable.
Observations:
#1. The contact points between them are the inner crimped sleeve and the outer surface(skin) of the cable - correct?
#2. Lets take a silver coated copper cable. Does this not mean that ALL the signal transfer is through the silver skin?
#3. And if it was a regular copper cable, the transfer would be through the 'copper' skin in this case?
#4. If 2&3 are correct, then the use of a stranded cable should have more surface area in contact as opposed to a solid-core cable, and would be superior in theory?
Question:
If, and a big If at that, all of the above are correct - a simplification - then the OCC process that I read about should offer major benefits for cabling, as well as reducing the advantages offered by coated cables by having longer crystalline structure of the copper(or silver).
Also, the pure carbon conductors having a long crystal structures from VanDen Hul should offer the same advantage.
This whole line of thought originated AFTER I ordered silver coated speaker cables and was trying to think about terminating them with Z-plugs and wondered if crimping was better than soldering.
Cheers,
SP