[Vintage-Audio] Re Gold Plated Audio Cables

[Peter Markavage]

If you play something between these two units and move the cables around
and/or tap the connectors with a stick and hear static or distortion
static (I'm not really sure what distortion static is), then the problem
is most likely in the cable or connectors. If this activity doesn't bring
upon the static, most likely it's coming from one of the units.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:58:10 -0500 "Duane Fischer, W8DBF"
<dfischer at usol.com> writes:
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Have any of you used the supposedly better quality gold plated audio 
> cables? 
> The pairs I have are six feet long with male RCA plugs on each end. 
> Very 
> heavy shielded cable, I am not sure of the gauge.
> 
> One thing I noticed when I first installed them was that they fit 
> very 
> tight! Removing them was not something one was supposed to do 
> often!
> 
> Since gold is not subject to corrosion I have left my four pairs of 
> audio 
> cables connected for the past eight years.
> 
> I am now getting some periodic static distortion between my Sony ZA5 
> ES DAT 
> deck and the Sony CDRW deck. I have the gold plated cables on both 
> the 
> input/outputs of the DAT deck running to the amplifier and from the 
> 
> amplifier to the input/output of the Sony CDRW deck. I have checked 
> all 
> cables to be sure they are not loose. I even partly unplugged each 
> one and 
> then re inserted it in case of a poor connection.
> 
> Nothing I have done thus far has eliminated the sometimes there - 
> sometimes 
> not static. Any suggestions or experiences with such cables to 
> share?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
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