Highly Polished wire????

Dan everyone knows shiny wire performs better, its gospel for christ sake! lol Very good question though. ~Tim

When metals are "polished", it is actually a process of removing metal until the surface of metal is very shiny and very clean. It's not like waxing a car where the "polish" is rubbed in and left on the car. The polishing agent can be any of many abrasives ranging from coarse to extremely fine, ie polishing rouge which is, of course, continuously removed in the process.

The other way of "polishing" might actually be plating with a metal of high conductivity-- gold being the most common plating material because it doesn't tarnish. Plating is different than polishing, and the plating metal + the bond are very important audio considerations. Cheers. Craig

That is a great point. If you use sand paper you are going to leave minute traces of Aluminum Oxide on the wire. I would suggest cleaning it afterward with water and a mild detergent. Just be sure to dry it very well to stop corrosion.

Do any manus. ultrasonically clean their cables during production?