Here's an article about a new type of wire being put on the market. It's not good:
http://tinyurl.com/2eeuqq5
http://tinyurl.com/2eeuqq5
Is that a yearning for bringing back double cotton covered wire?? Ah the good old days of rubber insulation and lead outer!...
But keeping an eye on ever decreasing quality of materials is a fact of life in this day and age.
Ever since the day plastics came along things just ain't been the same.
Isn't it more the case - as for most other things - that there are applications where it is not ideally suited, other places where it suits just fine, and applications where it may be the best option ?Yep - junk wire.
I'll go with the sweeping generalization for the time being to see how this all shakes out. The author may not be unbiased: "Garry Springgay is the owner of Cogent Audio Labs"Conclusion
At this point you might be thinking that CCA wire is bad and shouldn't be used, but that's not the case.