In an inorganic chemistry building, down the hall was a room housing someone's experimental apperatus. I was asked to go see why the electronics was irratic sometimes. They thought it was related toa precision voltage divider... a 5 dial rack mounted unit by a well known mfr..... I saw the swiches on the divider were all silver with three finger contacts. If you use the dials/switches they would self clean any oxide and give very low contact R to keep the divider accurate. I rotated the switches several times and then all was good to go. they didnt have any more irratic behavior. Now they expercise the switches periodically.
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Decent can still be cheap. I've been using Tiny XLR from REAN and all they do is work perfectly.
They have pretty close to the same diameter as an RCA. Don't know who blasted you and why, but I've been using them extensively and had excellent results. Admittedly, I'm designing for performance, not fashion or superstition.
Link to the three pin versions I use for balanced interconnection:
http://www.mouser.com/Connectors/Au...778cz?P=1yvsm2e&Keyword=rean+tiny+xlr&FS=True
Link to the three pin versions I use for balanced interconnection:
http://www.mouser.com/Connectors/Au...778cz?P=1yvsm2e&Keyword=rean+tiny+xlr&FS=True
Sulphur hexafluoride - good enough insulator for breakers and speakers - (electrostatics and subwoofers), good enough for connectors.
http://www.dayton-wright.com/WATSONLABS_.html
http://www.dayton-wright.com/WATSONLABS_.html
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Holding on the wrong end, obviously, Davada... 😀
Thread on ones even look nicer given how often I need to switch cables (never have to worry about bumping them out of place)
Thread on ones even look nicer given how often I need to switch cables (never have to worry about bumping them out of place)
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A BNC can be used for balanced and unbal connections. A twin, keyed, gold pin BNC.
Amphenol RF - 031-2225 - solder cup 1m&1f contact front mount twin bnc blkhd recept rf coaxial connector - Allied Electronics
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Amphenol RF - 031-2225 - solder cup 1m&1f contact front mount twin bnc blkhd recept rf coaxial connector - Allied Electronics
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Nickel over brass. Quelle horreur (sorry just sounds better in French).
Let's face it there is only one connector out there worse than the RCA phono, and that's the 2-pin Din speaker connector.
Let's face it there is only one connector out there worse than the RCA phono, and that's the 2-pin Din speaker connector.
As a manufacturer (at times in my life) I can tell you WHY we don't change out RCA connectors for something else.
We need COMPATIBILITY with existing audio cables, or else we have to supply special cables for every need. Quality RCA connectors work very well, last virtually forever, and sound OK if not great.
We need COMPATIBILITY with existing audio cables, or else we have to supply special cables for every need. Quality RCA connectors work very well, last virtually forever, and sound OK if not great.
And IMO the ultimate connector is still hypertac. Properly Milspec. Not the nice plop of a lemo when you pull them out, but otherwise not seen anything better for when the signal absolutely has to get through whatever.
Mind you DB9 are used in space!
Mind you DB9 are used in space!
Not using RCA hasn't stopped NAIM being in business for over 40 years. In fact they have recently developed a whole new version of the 5-pin connector.
https://www.naimaudio.com/product/range/super-lumina
Of course having a rabid fan base does help fed by certain tame UK audio publications.
https://www.naimaudio.com/product/range/super-lumina
Of course having a rabid fan base does help fed by certain tame UK audio publications.
NAIM is an exception that actually did it for EXCLUSIVITY as well as for upgrading quality. They WANT you to buy electronics within the NAIM brand, so they don't mind having to supply special cables as well. I knew Julian V. very well, we were good friends, and spent time at our different houses. He did it in spite of the problem of EXCLUSIVENESS.
Before this, Mark Levinson, not finding a quality RCA connector, as far back as 1976, changed to LEMO connectors (what a mess that created), but by 1978 or so, Tiffany quality RCA connectors became available to OEM manufacturers, and we went that way. I have never regretted it.
Before this, Mark Levinson, not finding a quality RCA connector, as far back as 1976, changed to LEMO connectors (what a mess that created), but by 1978 or so, Tiffany quality RCA connectors became available to OEM manufacturers, and we went that way. I have never regretted it.
Fortunately, we don't have to accept that kind of quality compromise. QWERTY is only a constraint if you're selling keyboards.
Naim also did very well out of selling cables to the converted. After all, if you don't use their speaker cable your amp might very well oscillate! The local Naim dealer did very well out of the launch of a new cable line last year as people spent thousands upgrading.
Julian was almost the Steve Jobs of Hifi in that respect. Not sure we will see his like again.
Julian was almost the Steve Jobs of Hifi in that respect. Not sure we will see his like again.
Going back in time, a lot of AGC size fuse ends were silver plated.
I find them often in old military gear, WWII and Korean vintage.
Fuses are non-linear distortion producers anyhow.
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