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In Reply to: RE: Best Budget XLR Balanced Cables posted by Duster on November 27, 2016 at 13:39:51
did you compare them to the Ramm Audio ones, also screw style?
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No, but I've compared the platinum plated EIZZ XLR with the gold plated EIZZ XLR, and clearly prefer the platinum plated version.
Hi Duster,
Platinum has the conductivity of cooper and the corrosion resistance of gold. I have often wondered why it is not used more often for contacts in audio. Does anybody make a platinum plated RCA?
Dave
Platinum is within the rhodium family, so it shares many of the benefits of a rhodium plated connector. The WBT NextGen WBT-0102 Ag rca connector features a platinum plated silver return contact.
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Nice but a serious investment!
Dave
could you please explain us why in some detail?
Essentially, the platinum EIZZ XLR provides more clearly defined image outlines and other spatial cues. The gold EIZZ XLR sounds a bit veiled when compared with the platinum EIZZ XLR. A correlation can be made in the comparison of the gold plated Oyaide 079 AC connector vs. the palladium over gold Oyaide 046 AC connector. The 079 sounds warmer, less focused, less coherent, less vivid, with a bigger but looser bottom end vs. the 046. YMMV
i see, thanks; i carefully compared long ago the Oyaides 079, 046 and 004, and the 079 resulted much better to my ears, in my system and for my music; the 046 was dry and lifeless, and the much more expensive 004 gave me a lot of details but also a lot of listening fatigue...
so, since a similar proportion should be found between the EIZZ platinum and the RAMM gold, i'll stick to the later, definitely!
It's all good. Metal plating can be, and should be used as a tool for custom system tuning purposes, evaluated by an individual listener. It's a fascinating aspect of the audiophile hobby.
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