Gold coated brass speaker spades

This topic could go on forever, cables and connectors at least, rabbit holes galore

Different types of copper (PC-OCC, PC-OCC-A, Triple-C, OCC, UPOCC, OFC, UPOFC, 102 SSC, Nano liquid, etc.

Coatings: Silver, Palladium, Rhodium, Gold, nano Au/Ag, CFC, etc

Yep.

All points about Cooper vs. Silver vs. other metals are true and I'm not arguing that. Brass wires inside Chinese fake cables instead of OFC or Silver is also true.

These truths do also reveal that for audio applications the differences will be so small that most of consumers won't notice and purchase fakes with happiness. 

@dill 

Right now you won't be able to find any brands of hi-end audio wires from neither DHGate nor Alibaba/Aliexpress. Before they were part of ebay everything was possible. Fake wires were made and sold to public and you can only dream about if they have silver or OFC. 

Brass wire is for hanging pictures, period.

Just another reason to avoid the fake stuff from PRC or any country. 

These truths do also reveal that for audio applications the differences will be so small that most of consumers won't notice and purchase fakes with happiness. 

@czarivey  No, it does not reveal any such thing.  Unless someone compared the Chinese knockoffs directly to the legit version you cannot infer the differences were “so small” — that’s just unfounded supposition on your part.  Not saying people weren’t possibly happy with whatever results they got with the fakes, but failing a direct comparison that doesn’t tell anything definitive about how close they sound to the real thing.