rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (04/25/85)
[] A perhaps as effective an improvement as changing to solid gold interconnect cables (Well, ones that cost as much :-)) and an action that must be taken eventually no matter what interconnect cable you use (except maybe gold on gold) is to buy a can of good contact cleaner and clean thoroughly all the mating surfaces of all your interconnect cables. This will rid you of oxides and various semiconducting materials and will often produce an audible improvement in reduced hum and noise. God knows what it does to your sound stage as the technique was invented before the term. It even helped back in the good old days of (blush) mono ( and I don't mean the disease). -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
gino@sdchema.UUCP (Eugene G. Youngerman) (04/26/85)
>A perhaps as effective an improvement as changing to solid >gold interconnect cables (Well, ones that cost as much :-)) and >an action that must be taken eventually no matter what interconnect >cable you use (except maybe gold on gold) is to buy a can of good >contact cleaner and clean thoroughly all the mating surfaces of all >your interconnect cables. This will rid you of oxides and various semiconducting >materials and will often produce an audible improvement in reduced hum and >noise. Keeping this in mind, why have not hi-end audio equipment been connected with screw-type terminals, rather than RCA or similar type phono teminals. It seems that people who are willing to go to all the trouble of setting up a hi-end system, would be willing to spend another 5 minutes with a screwdriver. I know that I would. GINO