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In Reply to: Re: spade sizes posted by cousinbillyl on March 19, 2006 at 08:02:09:
Yes, could do that too. If we did not have to disconnect our gear occasionally, the optimum would be to hard wire everything together with no connectors in the pathway at all.
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ALL cables were soldered--fono into preamp, preamp to poweramp, poweramp to speaker. That did make it inconvenient to move, so he didn't move it often.He introduced me to the sounds of speakercable lying on carpet v. NOT lying on carpet. He became Technical Director of 'The Absolute Sound', published his own hi-end-audio magazine for a while, and then regained his sanity and has been out of audio for a couple decades.
I solder speakercable to speakers...
...and have soldered IC (HomeGrown IC-4) to poweramps. Not only does it save money but it sounds a teeny bit better, too.
Lew, I am wondering if using a wire nut to connect the bare wire would be suitable (like the ones in electrical junction boxes). I was thinking of a way to bypass the binding posts and have a wire to wire connection and I happened upon this thread. What are your thoughts?
As long as you can keep the exposed surface area from touching any other metal surfaces.
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