Funny , I opened up a pair of Shunyata Aries ic's to reterminate . What I found was shocking . The tubing they come in is about 3/4 inch thick . Make them look big with the tubing . Inside were two 16 or so gage plastic coated wires . All smoke and mirrors . I was told by the owner of Shunyata to reterminate a 4 meter into 4 one meter pairs would cost around 2k . Very hard to reterminate I was told. Well with no experience I was able to do so without any problems . All or most cables are basically copper ,so you are paying for fancy dress !
Reterminate Syn. Research cable, shocking find
The factory banana connectors on my Resolution Reference FX speaker cables were getting weak, near the breaking point.
I bought some nicely machined bananas from Madisound, and set about my task. When the factory connectors were removed, I was shocked to find how flimsily made the bananas were, and how poor the soldered connections were. They were barely soldered on!
I put the new connectors on, both screwing them down tight, and using a good amount of silver solder, for a very good connection.
After they were all done, and put back in the system, they sounded better, and not just a little bit, but a lot better. I've used mostly SR cables for most of my cabling needs, and always thought highly of SR products, but not so much, now.
I bought these cables new, for $1400. You would think with the markup on cables, they could use high quality connectors, and actually use a sufficient amount of solder for a quality connection. Disappointing!
I bought some nicely machined bananas from Madisound, and set about my task. When the factory connectors were removed, I was shocked to find how flimsily made the bananas were, and how poor the soldered connections were. They were barely soldered on!
I put the new connectors on, both screwing them down tight, and using a good amount of silver solder, for a very good connection.
After they were all done, and put back in the system, they sounded better, and not just a little bit, but a lot better. I've used mostly SR cables for most of my cabling needs, and always thought highly of SR products, but not so much, now.
I bought these cables new, for $1400. You would think with the markup on cables, they could use high quality connectors, and actually use a sufficient amount of solder for a quality connection. Disappointing!
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