I hate to always be the one to say it but there's no way you're going to hear a difference between the usual tin plating and a gold-colored plating on a plain steel string. The rougher coating on an Elixir, maybe. But silver-colored plating versus gold-colored plating is functionally the same stuff.
Then again some people think shiny bits of shell on the rosette and bindings make a guitar sound "brighter" so maybe they ought to have blue-tin-plated plain steel strings for guys playing the "blues". It might make the guitar sound "bluer".
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