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Some further thoughts on ends

Remember Enid Lumley, the tweaker who once wrote for TAS?

She wrote that her ends sounded better if she literally sanded the plating off, to the copper base plated layer. Of course she ran into issues with corrosion, but she claimed that it made a huge difference in sound. Tried it once and indeed the cables did sound better: more dynamics and detail, but, ah, resale value plummeted.

She simply recommended cramolin as the only treatment for the ends, IIRC.

Of course that was quite a while back and she unfortunately was sort of laughed out of the Audio business. Many of her pronouncements turned out to be correct when I have gotten the nerve to try them, however....

To Enid, wherever she may be, my apologies for laughing....

Also another thought. Jim Patric, the founder and builder of Music Metre cables, claimed that filing the contact point of RCA ends where the cable made contact with the end before soldering, also improved the sound, by allowing the signal to go to the base metal before going through all the plating layers, which it would still have to do at the contact end. I found the solder used made a bigger difference but haven't revisited the concept recently.

Again FWIW and YMMV


Edits: 05/09/14
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