I joined up here because you are all crazy .
Anyway , not much different to obsessing over a capacitor or resistor ,eh.
Every tiny part that makes up a stereo system adds its own distortion. To achieve the ultimate in musical enjoyment, each and every source of distortion has to be reduced to its bare minimum .
Knowing the relationship of the strand diameters to the overall sound gives you the ability to optimise the frequency balance .Most audiophiles would likely voice their cables in the neutral range anyway .The trick is knowing how to do it .Through many observations years ago I began to notice a subjective relationship with diameters to frequency .
Getting the right tonal balance through the frequencies is only one of many parameters you have to get right to make a great cable .Purity ,fluidity, soundstage, presence ,solidity of image, detail ,depth and probably many more .These can only be optimised by reducing distortion from the transmission through the wire .
Capacitance from the dielectric is a major contributor ,static electricity from plastics ,dielectric absorption ,resonance in wires ,the crystal boundaries in the wire ,the surface finnish of the wire ,the hardness of the metal ,etc. all add some form of distortion.
If you reduce all distortions from each part in the audio chain ,you should be able to enjoy more albums rather than less .If not you might be doing something wrong .The wire is just one part of the chain .
I have had many occasions where I came to like a track that used to annoy me ,after I reduced some objectional distortion in the chain .
Much of the music I listen to isn't "audiophile recorded" music ,as I find a lot of it bland and soulless .I certainly wouldn't tune my system around a small group of audiophile CDs at the expense of the rest of my collection . My goal is to make all of my music sound as good as it possibly can .
Cheers ,B