Don’t overthink it. No need to know the molecular breakdown here. Use good connectors and you’ll be fine.
I suggest contact enhancer mainly to prevent oxidation on bare wires over time from the remnants of oils left from your fingers. Deoxit will do as well.
Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable
Hi
I am about to assemble my first DIY AC Power cables for the first time. I chose the Yarbo SP-1100W as cable and Viborg connectors.
Connectors:
http://www.viborgaudio.com/en/Product/a/chanpin/jianzhusheji/2019/1231/305.html
Cable:
I was looking through some guides on youtube how to assemble it and I found this video from Furutech and as you can see they separate each conductor in 2 branches. I don't understand why they are doing that, does anybody know why? Should I do that as well for my power cable?
Cheers
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I agree with @audphile1 @erik_squires @jea48 - don’t overthink it. You are almost surely plugging the plug into a wall receptacle or power conditioner with brass, phosphor bronze, or beryllium copper contacts, and depending on what was used in your amplifier, you are probably plugging the IEC into an inlet with one of those same materials, unless either the designer used a higher level Furutech IEC inlet or you upgraded it. Furutech apparently uses copper connectors in their upper level products, as shown here. |
I have each one.of those plugs. Theory one I have not bought is the first 48 plated in silver. I have a few sets in rhodium and a few sets of the very best rhodium plug as well. Lol I cheaper out and bought four sets of the 48 rhodium ones and I have five sets of the Top one as well in rhodium plating. I also bought one set of the 15 in copper. I have a neotech gold as well have not tried that on anything yet. The basic copper plug set to me has the resolution of the rhodium plated ones and the musicality of the gold plated one but not the detail of either of the other two. I bought some of the carbon fiber covers I slipped over the plug and iec ends. That did make them a bit better. Where I liked those covers the best was over the 46 gold plated plugs the resolution got better and still had the swing of the gold plated ends. Also I have some of the best rhodium receptacle s and some of the best gold receptacles. Some components I like a rhodium plug into a gold receptacle and vise Vera. Some sound best with all gold or all rhodium in the chain. Lol that takes lots of time and listening to decide which way to go.
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