Cable Asylum

Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

Very Disappointed

Posted by bcowen on December 26, 2016 at 05:41:33:
Picked up a set of these for the speaker end of the cables. I like the BFA-style bananas as I think you get more surface area contact with them than with either spades or bare wire into a speaker binding post, and I bought the AQ's as they are one of the few available that have the outer gold plating applied directly to beryllium copper (no brass or nickel plating between). With the copper-only base metal I didn't expect them to be as rigid or have the "spring-back" that a brass or nickel substrate would offer, but what I didn't expect was the copper to be so thin that just the weight of the cable hanging off the end deforms it enough to marginalize the contact. Easy enough to pry the end back open to where it would offer a snug fit, until you insert it again and it almost collapses on itself. If I had to guess, I'd estimate the gold plating and copper together might amount to about 28 or 30 gauge thickness -- or about the same as a doubled-up piece of aluminum foil.

I'm going to try and return them (bought through Amazon), but as mangled up as they look right now from my trials to get them to stay in place it may be a long shot. I've been pleased or at least satisfied with everything I've purchased from Audioquest over the years, but these are a BIG fail...

Audioquest SureGrip 300