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Hi Fellow Inmates,
Here's an experiment for banana plug and BFA plug users if your binding posts have removable nuts:
Give your system a good listen with the binding post nuts in place. Then, disconnect the banana plugs or BFA plugs and remove the binding post nuts. Plug the banana plugs or BFA plugs back in and evaluate any difference for better, worse, or none at all when the binding post nuts are removed.
I'll be interested in reading your findings, thanks :-)
Cheers, Duster
Follow Ups:
You should make sure that the contacts are clean. Just unplugging the bannanas and plugging them back in (without removing the nuts) might be enough of a cleaning for some to hear a difference.
Increased transparency from a cleaner connection?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out later . . . .
Probably because it sounds like such a good idea. In any event, the nuts stay off (my Gallo Ref 3s), at least for a while. Problem is I've made so many other recent changes (e.g., replacing the Power Ports with Furutech outlets on one of my PS Audio P300s) that it's a little hard to tell :-)
A friend and I did some before-and-after comparisons this morning and heard a slight increase in transparency without the nuts. They'll stay off for the time being, but it was really a subtle thing.
In my system this actually caused a noticeable increase in overall definition, perhaps slightly more energy across the board. So obviously tht extra transfer of signal between the post and screw degrades the signal. I'll switch back later to get another read, but it's not a small difference - perhaps along the lines of a power chord change. Nice call, thanks.
Ken
after switching back and forth and listening for awhile, I have come to the conclusion that there is a very subtle bit of added energy across the range that I can hear with the gold plated terminal screws removed.
The difference I hear on subsequent changes back and forth became more subtle than I experienced after the initial switch - perhaps part of the effect of the original removal of the screws was actually caused by the reseating of the bananas and the Caig Pro Gold cleaning I performed when I first made the switch. Oddly enough, and with all of the cable tuning I've done to my system, I actually prefer my system the way it was before, with the screws on. So now they are back in place.
Nonetheless, this is a very worthwhile tweak that will take things in an improved direction in some systems.
Ken
Hmmm. When I tried it without the nuts, the bass lost its balls and the highs sounded neutered. Go figure.
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