Would silver cables beat UP-OCC copper?

Unless you are somewhat close to a 60 degree angle, say 50-70, your sound stage is probably pretty screwed up anyway. Sure narrower gives a better defined center image, and wider can give you more stage width while making the center fuzzy, and that is all personal preference, but I am giving you the benefit of the doubt. 1/3 of 1/2 of 60 = 10 degrees. Easy peasy.

Again, Occam's razor. You are trying to assign special properties, outside what is possible, to stranded wire. The reasonable thing to do is look at what is more likely. You are misinterpreting, you are biased, or something is broken.  Stop getting all incensed, step back, and think about what is really happening and why.  Getting angry at me is not going to change your listening, though it may reinforce or break a bias. I lean towards the former.

Dude, you are one really out on a vendetta. I’m not the one who’s incensed, you are. Stop projecting and trying to turn the argument on it’s head as to who’s all worked up. You’ve taken steps to back off and quit being an PITA, trying the therapist angle but it’s a little too late.

Have you ever had a set up where the imaging was really good and the speakers rarely ever drew attention to themselves? And all it took was a cable swap and the imaging fell apart with the speakers being more the source of the sound?

Or do you feel that any cable will get the same results?

All the best,
Nonoise

And all it took was a cable swap and the imaging fell apart with the speakers being more the source of the sound?

If you assign special pleading to your results, you will never discover what really happened.  That is your choice, but why encourage others to pursue the same path?

I can see why you've changed your handle about half a dozen times now. Not a mark of a stable personality.

No special pleading, please. Do you honestly think I'm appealing to the likes of you? The quicker you go away and start anew with a new handle, the better for the rest of us.

All the best,
Nonoise

I have used solid silver interconnects for more than 25 years now. No reason to change or 'upgrade'.  That's value for money!

But I stick to copper for speaker cables.