Gold coated brass speaker spades
Question for the forum.
Whats the low down on brass speaker spades and bananas?
I recently demoed some very nice sounding speaker cables from a reputable manufacturer and found they used gold plated brass connectors. From what I have read in these forums, copper is the preferred base metal. Does it really matter?
What to do?
mclinnguy I did not compare the Shunyata receptacle. I tested several models of Furutechs, Oyaides, Pangea (which I already owned), Cardas, Synergistic, Acme Audio Labs, Levitons, and maybe some others......testing was just over a year long. The Acme Audio Labs silver Cryo and CFC, were surprisingly good at their modest $60 price......revealing, but not as much as the rhodium Furutechs which take forever to break in |
@czarivey You’re kidding, right? That’s just an absurd statement, and nobody makes cables out of brass wire for a reason. |
Looks like everything happens for a reason and no matter how absurd it is sounding to you, please check the past how Chinese retailers were selling fake Harmonic Tech, Nordost, Siltech and other 4...5- figure priced wires for around $100 per pair and finding lots of success, because even if science can be misleading or biased, the mathematics cannot. The material inside pretty sleeves when opened turned out to be neither OFC nor Silver, but the discussed cheap brass! |
