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In Reply to: RE: Silver solder or tin/lead solder posted by pc123v on May 05, 2016 at 10:10:58
That is going in the opposite direction sonically then you are looking for.
If you want to solder use Cardas and a nice gold plated spade. Or as an alternative a spade and a crimp. Harbor freight has some hydraulic crimpers at reasonable $. That would be superior sonically to any soldered connection.
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Perhaps WBT decided to feature 4% silver content solder in order to provide a bit more sparkle for their warm sounding gold plated rca connectors, including the low-mass WBT NextGen.
Hum, A bit more sparkle. Might that be possibly perceived as brighter?? Not saying bright, just brighter. Just sayin.
"Think" energy level vs. brightness. Treble energy can be a good thing if the top end is clean, detailed, and airy. Brightness represents dreadful sounding (and feeling) distortions.
I would not suggest that you pick gold plated things to solder to. Gold contaminates solder joints. e.g. NASA will not accept solder joints to gold plated items.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=326392&jid=MAM&volumeId=11&issueId=S02&aid=326391
I have rarely encountered a solder joint failure due to brittleness, even gold plated spades involving direct mechanical stress which is not an issue when terminating cable connectors with an adequate strain relief mechanism. Cold solder joints have been a chief concern when soldering a pure copper base metal plated with gold, but careful pre-tinning often solves that issue, or simply allowing the soldering iron tip to linger a bit longer than is usual in order for the gold to be better integrated into the solder joint.
The conditions is space give a new meaning to the term "cold solder joint". These conditions are not likely to occur with anything that inmates in this forum would likely solder. If it did occur, a bad solder joint would be the least of our problems!
Dave
98% of Nasa electronics is ground based.
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