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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #170 on: July 16, 2015, 11:15:35 PM »
I use Quantum quark crusher cables. They come 2 for the price of 1.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #171 on: July 16, 2015, 11:34:11 PM »
Quote from: Armaegis on July 16, 2015, 08:43:30 PM
And technically you'd be better off with bare wire into the speaker terminal anyways, since any connector at minimum adds two interfaces  :-\

Not really. First of all a lot of high-end binding posts don't even accept bare wire, and you'll run into problems with multiple conductors per terminal. IMO the best option is a heavy, pure copper spade. Most banana plugs are hollow and can be difficult to machine if not made from a large percentage of brass, but spades are much more simple and can be made using much softer metals than banana plugs because they are so much thicker.

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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #172 on: July 16, 2015, 11:40:02 PM »
I actually run bare wire into my lofi system. My loend receiver accepts it.

Now, are most hiend system connectors pure copper? can they, at the push of a button, cold weld those spades into the receiver? Are the receiver discretes cold welded to their respective boards?
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #173 on: July 16, 2015, 11:45:39 PM »
Whats a Receiver?  :)) :)) :D ;)
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #174 on: July 17, 2015, 12:09:04 AM »
It's a black box of awesomeness that has a lot of glory holes for all your eargasmic desires usually on it's behind.



But mine doesn't cold weld my cable. So fail.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #175 on: July 17, 2015, 12:24:10 AM »
Quote from: DaveBSC on July 16, 2015, 11:34:11 PM
Not really. First of all a lot of high-end binding posts don't even accept bare wire, and you'll run into problems with multiple conductors per terminal. IMO the best option is a heavy, pure copper spade. Most banana plugs are hollow and can be difficult to machine if not made from a large percentage of brass, but spades are much more simple and can be made using much softer metals than banana plugs because they are so much thicker.



nonsense. real men like OJ make their own speakers and pressure weld, I mean crimp, the cables directly to the voice coil leads of the drivers. spades are for lewsers who drive Infiniti and use Samsung gs6 smartphones
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #176 on: July 17, 2015, 12:35:11 AM »
I'm going to sound like a retard, but I actually do think the connections make a difference. At least a bad, rusty brass connector sounds bad to me. The difference is small enough that an xnor or Ethan Winer wouldn't notice it and it probably wouldn't show up in an RMAA loopback, but when you replace the connectors with new gold plated stuff it does sound more clear. FWIW I've heard more of a difference between connections rather than wire. BTW the connections that sound the best are soldered. Even when I use crimps I add solder. All this fucking welding crap is audiophool shit.

Anyway, I go for practicality when it comes to connectors. No idea why someone would want a copper connector as it's going to oxidize. Unless it's that special tellurium copper that my HD800 connector. That thing sounds great. Gold or rhodium otherwise. I think I prefer the sound of gold. Maybe because I'm part Jewish.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #177 on: July 17, 2015, 12:40:31 AM »
I'm curious about the sound of Uranium.
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #178 on: July 17, 2015, 12:54:12 AM »
Quote from: ultrabike on July 17, 2015, 12:09:04 AM
It's a black box of awesomeness that has a lot of glory holes for all your eargasmic desires usually on it's behind.

But mine doesn't cold weld my cable. So fail.

I'm amazed that they still stick 10,000 composite and S-video connections on the back of receivers. Who are these for??? Who has 10,000 VCRs and LaserDisc players?
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Re: "Audiophoolery"?
« Reply #179 on: July 17, 2015, 12:55:53 AM »
Quote from: marvey on July 17, 2015, 12:24:10 AM
nonsense. real men like OJ make their own speakers and pressure weld, I mean crimp, the cables directly to the voice coil leads of the drivers. spades are for lewsers who drive Infiniti and use Samsung gs6 smartphones

You could certainly do that, but I wonder if those little voice coil leads will accept 8AWG+ wire...

The other problem with using bare wire is whether you have shitty ass spring clips or some type of screw down post, part of the cable will be continually exposed to air, and that copper will begin to turn green/brown before long and lose a fair bit of conductivity.
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