Gold coated brass speaker spades

There are no set rules on this sort of thing.  There are many good sounding and bad sounding examples of all sort of connectors and the binding posts.  A speaker builder in my area who makes custom amps and speakers, some ultra expensive, looks for some very old (and cheap looking) binding posts that are made, I believe, of brass.  They turn out to be not that cheap because the community of small builders know about them and bid up the price.  He has some customers insist on better looking binding posts, in which case he uses the likes of WBT silver binding posts.

The cables are made by Tara Labs.  The issue in my mind is that similarly priced cables have copper based connectors.  All of my other cables are gold plated copper.  I get they may be trying to create some value by using cheaper connectors, but part of me wonders if they are cutting corners.  So, would their nice sounding cables sound even nicer with better connectors.  Perhaps I am over thinking things.  Perhaps I have read too many posts on audiogon.

I think it matters, and I'm surprised that a company like Tara Labs would be using brass. Shame on them.

I think it matters, and I’m surprised that a company like Tara Labs would be using brass. Shame on them.

@roxy54 I’m really NOT surprised. They took smart Chinese approach of making materials cheaper. Consumers would not notice a thing like they would not notice any difference between pure silver in Siltech and brass in the fake Siltech as long as the outside looks same. 

When Alibaba, Aliexpress wasn't part of ebay they were all overwhelmed with fake Siltech, Harmonic Tech and other super high-priced wires made with cheap brass and most of the fools didn't notice anything till they took them apart. 

Brass is just copper with some zinc tin for hardness. Copper is a better conductor but you got better ears than me if you can tell the difference.