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RE: Yes, but

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In Reply to: RE: Yes, but posted by geoffkait on March 01, 2022 at 13:37:28

The jackets are NOT 'vacuum sealed'...and DO admit air.

And besides? The concern is at the ENDSs where they are exposed / crimped or under the odd wire nut in the J-Boxes in your house.....

And yes, give it long enough and starting at the clipped ends, the conductors inside the jacket WILL oxidize.

The real question is? Why WOULDN'T they?

If I could add a drawing I don't want to make in the FIRST place? you'd see that a bundle of wires has spaces between the round conductors in which air travles the LENGTH of the cable.....
Too much is never enough

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RE: Yes, but - geoffkait 16:42:22 03/01/22 (2)
I doubt any oxidation of copper - even if did occur - would change how wire directionality affects the sound. Plus I don't believe your characterization of copper that oxides acts like a diode. How bout them apples?
- RE: Yes, but - pictureguy 16:59:34 03/01/22 (1)
  You know, I've learned over the years that even IF I don't believe something, it can still be true.
  
  Copperoxide was used as a stacked recitifier material.....In the age of similar stacked Selenium....
  
  I suspect such oxidezed connections MAY have an effect on the very lowest voltage circuits.....Maybe
  
  either MC or MM phono connections. But until YOU give the OK, that's just speculation.
  
  Any dissimilar metals 'joined' can have a thermoelectric voltage generated which can ALSO effect
  
  such very low voltage circuits.....
  Too much is never enough
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_rectifier (Open in New Window)
  - RE: Yes, but - geoffkait 09:08:16 03/02/22 (0)
    I didn't see the word diode mentioned anywhere in that article, maybe I missed it. :-)

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