Has anyone ever tried cables made with OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) Copper?

@dougthebiker - OCC copper (or the various other variants along the same lines) make a significant difference over OFC copper - mainly in the area of dynamic performance.

Clarity, Details and Tonal Neutrality are closely tied to the cable geometry and the insulations used

• a good cable geometry will lower the noise floor in a cable
• an effective insulation also lowers the noise floor
• the result of these two aspects result in improved clarity and details that ultimately result in a more spacious and detailed image

If you want to understand more about these aspects take a look at this link

The Ultimate Helix IMAGE "Air" - With a little help from my friends | My Audio Alchemy (image99.net)

If you have any questions just ask

If you are not into DIY, then I would give a +1 to Zavfino products as posted above.

• they use OCC copper and OCC silver
• they employ and advance geometry and advanced insulations
• they have a range of products that are affordable

Happy to Help - Steve

pindac,

neotech still uses the original OCC process to make single crystal wire they were one of the three original companies to get the licensing, they are now producing something even better and that's rectangular OCC single crystal wire which is superior to the round OCC, the reference line consists of the Amazon which is their silver rectangular OCC wire and the Sahara which is their copper rectangular silver wire I've got the Sahara speaker wire and interconnects and I can tell you it was much better than my Harmonic technology top of the line interconnects and speaker wire using round o c c. not cheap but well worth it these cables will definitely go up against $18,000 wire and beat them.

pindac,

and just for your information the ducc conductor is not as good as single Crystal OCC it's one or two steps below still very good wire but OCC single crystal is still the best conductor for audio.

Willywonka,

I have to say you're very knowledgeable, OCC is the best conductor but if you have bad geometry it's not going to make a lot of difference so all those things go together and there is something even better now that Neotech is producing and that is rectangular OCC single crystal wire far superior to round OCC check out their website their reference line is the Amazon which is their rectangular silver OCC wire and the Sahara which is their rectangular copper OCC wire, I have the Sahara interconnects and their speaker wire bi-wired and it is much better than the Harmonic Tech pro 9 SE speaker wire and my harmonic Tech magic by ll interconnects I can hear stuff way into the background that I couldn't hear before the background is much blacker and quieter and everything is more open and three dimensional not cheap but well worth it.

How many cable manufactures are out there that maintain the same exact design other than the conductor material where a true "all other things being equal" comparison can be made?  I know that this is true for Iconoclast by Belden designed by Galen Gareis where, for example, there are multiple conductor options for most of the cables though they all are identical in design otherwise.  Are there other options?