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bigger posts=better sound?

Broke off one of the posts on my Dahlquist 10s while moving stuff around so I replaced it with a new gold-played wider (in diameter) post and it seems a lot more “open”. The originals were old (obviously) and nickel. I had to snip the connection inside to make it fit around the new post. Haven’t done the second speaker yet... but before I do, am I crazy?
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roxy54
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Actually, a lot of people who know about such things believe that lower mass is better than higher for binding posts, and more important is the material it is made of. Gold plated means about nothing, but having solid copper for instance is more conductive than the more common brass. 
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bdp24
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^ +1. Take a look at the Cardas CPBP post, or the even lower mass (and like the CPBP, machined from copper) Electra Cable Tube Connectors, available from GR Research.
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archguy
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Mass aside, my investigations have taught me that contact area is important.  This is very much a function of the connectors you use as well as the configuration of the binding posts themselves.  It's why I prefer spades. 
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