Arenith,
Stop being circularly illogical. BUY THE (fill in the blank) if you feel copper is better. That exactly why it is an option. Without pure evidence of a type of copper’s additional performance uplift it is up to you to ADD IT TO A PROPER DESIGN. COPPER DOES MEASURE within it’s resistivity variation THE SAME! ALL COPPER with the exception of resistivity measure the same R, L and C. Bring me the evidence of repeatable differences other than that. There are ZIP, ZERO, NONE outside of resistivity and mechanical T+E changes (cryo adjusts the mechanicals to an optimized low stress state).
Just because you want to work a deal with the devil on an exotic material doesn’t allow a designer to use what is called appeals to the ignorant; “Hey, I saw an invisible elephant in the room just now, prove I didn’t”. No, you prove you did, please. That animal could be ANYTHING at this point, why give it a name now? ICONOCLAST doesn’t prove anything except the knowns of the EM design and calculations. We provide the choice where it is purely subjective and you prove the merit(s) to yourself. We don’t matter in that effort. We can’t. There is nothing but BIAS in anybody’s answer but your own.
Once the right design is in physical fashion, ONLY then can we do as you say, substitute materials that do a like function and again, the differences are purely subjective for everyone. Most important, they didn’t make the cable WORSE!
It is easy to sit back and put a man on the moon in your mind, “they did what I would have done” but you didn’t. They did. When you start building your own rockets that REALLY need to work across the knowns, then you’ll appreciate how the unknowns are handled. Long before we can depend on pure theory and hypothesis, we need to get it 99% (probably more than 99%) based on reality and such that it can be repeated over and over. I won’t get in a rocket until that’s done.
Making cable isn’t a blind game of darts. There are solid reasons cable works like they do. Little evidence supports the majority of performance lies anywhere but within the knowns. Again, the HOW and WHY of a design isn’t supported with subjective opinion, and yes subjectivity is worthless. I don’t have invisible friends in my lab. As long as the electrical are retained to the knowns, the tertiary discussions can safely ride to the moon and back but they aren’t the reason the rocket worked as well as it did.
We turn unknown into knowns. We continue to challenge the knowns as possibly incorrect in science. That’s how it works. It doesn’t say we won’t ever figure out copper’s metallurgical effects on an EM wave, it means until we do known and repeatably the same every time what a material does, it has to remains off the table as a design element.
The series II speaker cable are not made with unknowns. They follow the current EM properties of analog cable. What is NOT “sold” is what everyone will HEAR with the revised numbers.
Best,
Galen