Skin Effect in Wires.

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Surface charge accumulation does not just apply to wires, it essentially constitutes an electric boundary condition, without it energy generation would not be possible, life would not exist and the world would not exist.

Distortion arises in the electrical interfaces. To reduce distortion is to reduce surface charge accumulation in any part of your system.
 
Using Wikipedia as a sole source without any underpinning knowledge would certainly explain most of your posts on this matter.
Others here have used this stuff for 30 or 40 years plus, and can easily identify incongruous wiki paste togethers.

Jn
Sheesh, I shuddered when I realized I had to add that "plus" to 40 years.
Edit: the wiki for ionization is missing one method. I call it the "low bridge" ionization method.
They make a carbon film (called a stripping foil) a few atoms thick, and pass an ion beam through it.
As it goes through, many ions will have lots of electrons stripped. The ones desired are collected using a dipole magnet, the curve of the ion will depend on how many electrons were removed.
The big accelerators and colliders use this method to remove all the electrons from uranium, gold, lead, silicon, using those ions for beams.
 
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Instead of thinking about how audio frequencies are too low to be relevant for skin effect why not turn around and take a different perspective. Start with an assumption that there is a skin effect going on, now ask how could that be ? Well it must be relevant only to something going on at much higher frequencies. Those high frequencies could be related to environmental noise. It's also the case that a gnfb amplifier has an open loop gain bandwidth that goes very much higher than audio and we know that the behaviour of an emitter follower output stage is sensitive to what you hang off it in terms of parasitic electrical properties. Now, instead of trying hard to debunk the effect, give youself the challenge of the opposite - try your hardest to find some way in which the skin effect could impact the amplifier. Sherlock Holmes and all that.
 
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So, given the same insulation thickness, the aspect ratio of the pairs in cross section changes. The #10 will have lower inductance per foot, the #14 will have less proximity effect. Note that proximity effect is far more of a player than skin effect at audio frequencies.

Yah, I remember that nutso insulation color stuff when I first saw it in 2000.


Jn
 
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Funny. I was just explaining to one of the physicists that higher twist pitch lowers the external magnetic field for our 6 around one superconducting cable... Such a small world.

Btw, that Youngwood thing is just about to go. Too bad there won't be any vendor visits.. so no way to diss you in person...😀

Jn
 
By ionization I mean creating an ionic conductive state which, again, involves a concentration of mobile ions in the vicinity of the boundary. Ionization energy denotes the energy required to overcome the Coulombic binding forces and accomplish recombinations in the bond formation, pull the atoms apart, coerce the nuclei closer together, flip the nuclear magnets, liberate a valence electron from the nucleus and lift it into the conduction band. (It`s a process of convoluted interactions rather than a state).
 
Spectra of Pink Floyd 1973 "The Dark Side on the Moon" album, my sampling from vinyl, very good phono stage similar to
2N2222A phono preamp
Well above 60kHz, up to 80 kHz:
(at 38kHz - noise from mobo quartz)
 

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You cut and paste random words which you do not understand, use them fully out of context, and "think" you said something deep.

TRYING to find some sense in what you wrote, and only because I am in the middle of a coffee break, with nothing better to do:

By ionization I mean creating an ionic conductive state which,
Where? inside a solid copper wire?
Care to mention what/which the ions would be?

Again: inside solid copper at room temperature.

Not plasma made out of copper at ultra high temperatures.

Not vaporized cooper inside an electrical arc jumping electrode to electrode.

Not copper dissolved in an acid bath.

again, involves a concentration of mobile ions in the vicinity of the boundary.
WHICH Boundary? we are talking a solid piece of wire.
Whether it´s solid or stranded wire end to end or one made out of twisted together short pieces.

Ionization energy denotes the energy required to overcome the Coulombic binding forces and accomplish recombinations in the bond formation, pull the atoms apart, coerce the nuclei closer together, flip the nuclear magnets, liberate a valence electron from the nucleus and lift it into the conduction band.
WHERE do you find ANY of that happening in a piece of copper wire passing some current?
Be it DC, AC, or Audio? (a subset of AC)
You are just cut pasting gibberish.
(It`s a process of convoluted interactions rather than a state).
trying to follow you is definitely convoluted 😀

FWIW Oxford Dictionary seems to define your posts quite accurately:
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adjective: convoluted

1.
(especially of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow.
"the film is let down by a convoluted plot in which nothing really happens"
Loved the example phrase 😀
a convoluted plot in which nothing really happens

Fits this thread like a glove 😛
 
Oh dear, oh dear.
Xmas today. Changed the beer for a glass of wine.
I enjoy good music, the Beatles, CCR, and the soundtrack of The lord of the rings.
Little amp, little speakers, technologie from the early sixties.
The ions are gently rubbing against my ears.
Magnificent skin effect...
Great wine.
Have a nice Xmas day you to...
 
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