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Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Bulgarien — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:31:42 GMT

Bang and olufsen have (at last) found that gold make a perfekt contact. Therefore they use goldcontact in the battery box in all NEW beo4 remotes . Look for you self...

But why not others places?

Specialy the contact and plugs used to the fine and weak output signal thats only delevery a few millivolt need gold for prevent poor contact,( and therefore better sound) but you can only find gold for use with 3 X 1,5 volt strong battery i the Beo4?

Where is the logic?

Alle serius audioproducct are using goldplugs and contacts becouse there are a difference, but not the worlds most expensive brand B&O!

That is not serius specialy not for the price..

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Puncher — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:49:41 GMT

jandyt:

Very nice Bulgarien but
just how much of an improvement do you think the gold makes?
Yes, I'm sure gold is a better conductor but surely, if it was so much better, B&O would have adopted gold for all their cables.
Just my opinion, mind.
Andy T.

Copper is a better conductor than Gold (Silver is best). The only reason to flash connectors with a Gold plating is its resistance to tarnishing to prevent poor contact. Both Copper and Silver oxidise in air although firm contact pressure should prevent high joint resistances from occuring in either.

Is there an audible advantage to gold plated connectors over well designed, solid "conventional" plugs and sockets - I think highly unlikey but, as always, there will be hundreds to argue the opposite (and many hundreds of suppliers willing to charge you extra for them)!

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Bulgarien — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:11:12 GMT

David:
Bulgarien:

Try to ask real hi-fi freaks There is no doubt that gold connektions makes a differense.
Today I use 5 pin DIN gold plug (and then make it to a 8 pin for the signal display (a litle difficult) together with a SUPRA dual signal cable that are connekted to my ICE power 1000ASP amplifiere with RCA plugs that drive my Penta´s.
I think there are a difference( Yes,-proberly only in my head)
I want the best and the fact is, that the only way is to make the connektions and sound improvement better on the easy way is with DIN plug in gold,
My next projekt are therefore to change the (retro) DIN plugs to (proff) XLR plugs, (only the signal) - thats is the ultimative solution in signal plugs.
And yes ,- I think B&O are wrong with many things , DIN plugs are one of them
Find some inspiration in this gigant gigant HiFI shop here . Start to change the powerplug to SCHUCO an power cord to shieldes types (as I have done , that was a good investment!) then the signal plug and signal cable and so on
http://www.dienadel.de/lshop,showrub,4084,d,1186608036-4084,1061913714,,,,0.htm
When i spoke to the designer of VAF loudspeakers he shared an interesting point, "just because some cables and connectors sound different, does not mean it sounds BETTER". Argh the topic gets me worked up so i'll leave it at that.

I notice me, that you olso can hear the difference. I have always said that there is lot of woodo in cables and plugs etc (and there is , but after I have got my Icepower amplifier I can hear the difference,, when change powerplugs, cables etc. to a better quality then B&O support

For mee have the sound difference goon to the better, but David is right , sometimetimes the sound getting worse, but when talking B&O, I think that the sound always can be better not worse...

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Dave — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:53:14 GMT

Bulgarien:
Try to ask real hi-fi freaks There is no doubt that gold connektions makes a differense.
Today I use 5 pin DIN gold plug (and then make it to a 8 pin for the signal display (a litle difficult) together with a SUPRA dual signal cable that are connekted to my ICE power 1000ASP amplifiere with RCA plugs that drive my Penta´s.
I think there are a difference( Yes,-proberly only in my head)
I want the best and the fact is, that the only way is to make the connektions and sound improvement better on the easy way is with DIN plug in gold,
My next projekt are therefore to change the (retro) DIN plugs to (proff) XLR plugs, (only the signal) - thats is the ultimative solution in signal plugs.
And yes ,- I think B&O are wrong with many things , DIN plugs are one of them
Find some inspiration in this gigant gigant HiFI shop here . Start to change the powerplug to SCHUCO an power cord to shieldes types (as I have done , that was a good investment!) then the signal plug and signal cable and so on
http://www.dienadel.de/lshop,showrub,4084,d,1186608036-4084,1061913714,,,,0.htm

When i spoke to the designer of VAF loudspeakers he shared an interesting point, "just because some cables and connectors sound different, does not mean it sounds BETTER". Argh the topic gets me worked up so i'll leave it at that.

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Alex — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:41:31 GMT

I'd more rather spend the money on CDs or Vinyl to be honest! I've had enough with buying cable upgrades. Definitely a difference in a few situations, but not worth the hassle/money IMO!

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Bulgarien — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:38:32 GMT

Simpel; better connektions

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Jandyt — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:34:08 GMT

Hmmm.
In the pursuit of perfection eh?
Thing is, and I might be wrong but
Why have a couple of milimeters of gold then three meters of copper?

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Bulgarien — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:15:03 GMT

Try to ask real hi-fi freaks There is no doubt that gold connektions makes a differense.

Today I use 5 pin DIN gold plug (and then make it to a 8 pin for the signal display (a litle difficult) together with a SUPRA dual signal cable that are connekted to my ICE power 1000ASP amplifiere with RCA plugs that drive my Penta´s.

I think there are a difference( Yes,-proberly only in my head)

I want the best and the fact is, that the only way is to make the connektions and sound improvement better on the easy way is with DIN plug in gold,

My next projekt are therefore to change the (retro) DIN plugs to (proff) XLR plugs, (only the signal) - thats is the ultimative solution in signal plugs.

And yes ,- I think B&O are wrong with many things , DIN plugs are one of them

Find some inspiration in this gigant gigant HiFI shop here . Start to change the powerplug to SCHUCO an power cord to shieldes types (as I have done , that was a good investment!) then the signal plug and signal cable and so on

http://www.dienadel.de/lshop,showrub,4084,d,1186608036-4084,1061913714,,,,0.htm

Re: NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Jandyt — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:41:54 GMT

Very nice Bulgarien but
just how much of an improvement do you think the gold makes?
Yes, I'm sure gold is a better conductor but surely, if it was so much better, B&O would have adopted gold for all their cables.
Just my opinion, mind.

Andy T.

NEW! 8 pin powerlink Y adapter in gold!

Bulgarien — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:02:26 GMT

Need a ekstra PowerLink out

BOSSCOM have produced this new Powerlink Y cable splitter . You can get it in white or black. Ask for the gold version

Who sell 8 pin DIN plug in gold?

http://uk.bosscom.dk/news.asp?type=4