I was looking at a pair of speaker cables. They were talking about crystal gap. I didn't understand. Can someone explain? The reason I put it in the theroy listing is because I figured it was someones theroy about this. Can it be proven?

never heard of it Larry, cant find anything on it either. can you elaborate?

Some guys named the high purity copper - crystal copper. Maybe have something to do with this...

I suspect this has to do with the crystilline structure of the wire. There has been significant work done by a Japanese researcher many years ago that created a manufacturing process for high density crystilline structure for copper wire. I believe the designation is OHFC for this type of wire.

Actually, cryrogenic treatment also works on the structure of metal too. It aligns the srystal structure of a metal and results in a metal that is stronger and uniform desnity.

Hope this gives you a starting place for researching this subject.

Regards
Mister Pig

Thanks Mr. Pig It was japenese cable I was looking at. I just don't get why the electrons care unless it lowers resistance.

This is confusing considering that metals are macroscopically amorphous. Of course if you were able to orient the metal atoms in some fashion, you would lower resistance, but I have a hard time believing/understanding how this works. Maybe I'll do some research on this. I've thought about it before, but I need to find some outside reading (ie enginnering or inorganic chemistry magazines(>

hope this helps. I certainly got something of an education.

http://www.museum.mtu.edu/Gallery/Copper/crystals.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalline_copper


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_process

http://www.mco-tebb.demon.co.uk/MSCHome.htm


-I think the last two are the best. Had no idea that you could make crystals of so many differenent elements. Some of the processes for growing the crystals are new while som have been around for nearly a 100 years. Shoulda remembered that pure silicon and uranium have crystal structures. Uranium is particularly difficult to store because as it decays, predicting the changes to the crystal structure is difficult. A long story for another time.

At any rate, it pretty much like I thought earlier. Electrons transfer more easily in ordered arrays than in in amorphous type structures. This lowers resistance and may produce a better sound in your system.

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