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.