Palerider,
I have a pair of Paul Weitzel designed CRL/FIM speaker cables and a couple of his power cords. All use solid core copper in heavy gauge configurations. I would agree with your assessment on these types of cables as to how they influenced the sound in my system. However, I am currently using some stranded smaller gauge speaker cables and interconnects designed by Dale Pitcher at Intuitive Audio and I have to say I don't feel I'm missing any dynamics. As for thin sounding, maybe it's the solid core wire accentuating the sound. Hard to tell which is which from my perspective, but I enjoy both sets of cables in my system so I guess that's what counts.
I have a pair of Paul Weitzel designed CRL/FIM speaker cables and a couple of his power cords. All use solid core copper in heavy gauge configurations. I would agree with your assessment on these types of cables as to how they influenced the sound in my system. However, I am currently using some stranded smaller gauge speaker cables and interconnects designed by Dale Pitcher at Intuitive Audio and I have to say I don't feel I'm missing any dynamics. As for thin sounding, maybe it's the solid core wire accentuating the sound. Hard to tell which is which from my perspective, but I enjoy both sets of cables in my system so I guess that's what counts.