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RE: Banana Plugs - RCA Connector Plating Options

Posted by el34eh@yahoo.com (A) on August 27, 2022 at 05:41:33

In Reply to: RE: Banana Plugs - RCA Connector Plating Options posted by Sondek on August 26, 2022 at 18:33:50:

Hello Sondek,

First off I'd like to thank you again for your willingness to educate me on all those 6DJ8 | ECC88 types | as well as sharing some with me from your personal stash, as I ended up with 37 pairs, where I just located a third box of which I had hidden from myself just a few days ago.

Now onto the subject at hand..., weird thing is, I used to see said Bocchino connectors many years ago, when I used the Cable Research Labs stuff, and always felt to be wonderfully built, yet noticed his wares are no longer available at the Cable Company | yet read about them over on What's Best Forum, as Sablon Audio seems to use his very unique looking AC | IEC Connectors on his power cords, so I still tend to follow said threads or designs | while I've collected silver | gold | rhodium plated copper | alongside unplated or red copper RCA Input | Banana Plugs, it still seems somewhat difficult for me to know which type I'd like to end up with on my sole pair of SCs, which are silver plated copper themselves?.

As you've mentioned it comes down to the end result of knowing ( which I admittedly don't ) how to prefect the balancing act of which plating to use..., yet I guess since I've each of them here already, I should ideally start with rhodium, then silver, followed by the other three ( where the fifth set is actually chrome plated brass ) before placing shrink wrap over their barrels.

Logically listening critically has to become part of the process | but I'm up to it..., as there doesn't seem to be anything written in stone on which route to go anyways | it seems in hindsight one should be willing to trust their senses and try them all.

Thanks again for chiming in, as I've always seen your voice as one of reason.

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