This rabbit hole is deep. For many many years, in professional music, I was familiar with OFC - Oxide Free Copper. All my cables were just OFC, nothing more.
The ARTTI T10 came with silver plated copper cables. And I do have one KZ silver plated copper cable, which I bought out of curiosity - not expensive. Thought I was doing well.
Today, I discovered there is more in audiophile land - OCC - Ohno Continuous Cast. Where does it end? One just has to stop somewhere. In professional audio - copper without any trimmings is good enough, and that is what is used to create the music and audio we listen to. Just copper for analog cables, no coatings, of any kind. That is what runs or is installed in the top professional studios and home studios - just copper - yes very likely OFC copper, but nothing more than copper in the cable strands.
Makes me wonder why are we going overboard in enthusiast land - silver coatings, silver cabling, graphene, silver copper alloys, and now OCC.
There's an acronym for this excessiveness - OCD. The audio cables in our studios, radio stations, broadcast houses, mastering suites, post production, all made of just copper, nothing else, coated with insulating material. None of this other excess. The people who produce what we hear use nothing else but copper. Nothing else. So why are we trying to hear it with esoteric materials. like silver and graphene? Ridiculous if you ask me.
The ARTTI T10 came with silver plated copper cables. And I do have one KZ silver plated copper cable, which I bought out of curiosity - not expensive. Thought I was doing well.
Today, I discovered there is more in audiophile land - OCC - Ohno Continuous Cast. Where does it end? One just has to stop somewhere. In professional audio - copper without any trimmings is good enough, and that is what is used to create the music and audio we listen to. Just copper for analog cables, no coatings, of any kind. That is what runs or is installed in the top professional studios and home studios - just copper - yes very likely OFC copper, but nothing more than copper in the cable strands.
Makes me wonder why are we going overboard in enthusiast land - silver coatings, silver cabling, graphene, silver copper alloys, and now OCC.
There's an acronym for this excessiveness - OCD. The audio cables in our studios, radio stations, broadcast houses, mastering suites, post production, all made of just copper, nothing else, coated with insulating material. None of this other excess. The people who produce what we hear use nothing else but copper. Nothing else. So why are we trying to hear it with esoteric materials. like silver and graphene? Ridiculous if you ask me.