These wires are weird. On amazon.de they are claiming "copper plated connectors", not copper-clad steel conductor.
This screenshot is taken from the German page, translated to English by Google Chrome. Later on they claim a dual-layer shielding, one layer made from aluminium, one from tinned copper. But they also list the contacts as being copper plated steel in the description, which surely they are not (because they are clearly gold plated, indeed). Doesn't make them more credible.
On the other hand I haven't heard of anyone using copper-clad steel in audio cables, while the infamous copper-clad aluminium is a constant nuisance. Those Amazon Basics cables I own personally (like three or four of them) are extremely flexible, really much, much more flexible then I would expect from CCA.
I don't quite feel like ripping one of those cables apart right now.
This screenshot is taken from the German page, translated to English by Google Chrome. Later on they claim a dual-layer shielding, one layer made from aluminium, one from tinned copper. But they also list the contacts as being copper plated steel in the description, which surely they are not (because they are clearly gold plated, indeed). Doesn't make them more credible.
On the other hand I haven't heard of anyone using copper-clad steel in audio cables, while the infamous copper-clad aluminium is a constant nuisance. Those Amazon Basics cables I own personally (like three or four of them) are extremely flexible, really much, much more flexible then I would expect from CCA.
I don't quite feel like ripping one of those cables apart right now.