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In Reply to: RE: Tympani ferrous parts posted by BDP24 on June 02, 2017 at 12:29:16
If possible solder directly to the cardas terminals.
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Yup Satie, that's my intention. I mentioned the other option just for the sake of argument and completeness.
By the way, my Ace hardware store has aluminum stand-offs (little hollow tubes, through which a mounting screw may pass) that are perfect for installing between the terminal plate and the Tympanis MDF frame, one at each corner of the plate. The terminal plate needs to be moved out a little to be able to use the Cardas binding posts---the posts are 3/4" behind the surface they are mounted on, the cavity in the Tympani frame behind the terminal plate 5/8" deep. I'm planning on using 1/2" stand-offs, for a little breathing room.
That would do it. But I like Ric Schultz' idea with simple poly binding posts - of externalizing the internal wire right by the binding posts and putting a bit of stripped wire through the hole in the binding post to mate with stripped wire from the speaker cable so you have no joints at all and easy access to clean up the contacts periodically.
Yeah, that's the purist/perfectionist way of doing it all right. A former owner of the T-IVa's may have done his hook-up that way, as the internal wires are sticking out the back, tinned on their ends. But I use my speaker cables with other speakers (ET LFT-8b's and LFT-4's, QUAD 57's), and I really don't want to modify them all. I'm willing to accept the small degree of loss caused by using Cardas binding posts and spades on my cables. I'm not a hi-fi fanatic, just an enthusiast!
would also work with bananas or pins on the speaker cable. Not sure about spades.
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