Today I practically found out..
Long story short and a little spin-off topic. I owned a Sansui Au101 already for the master bedroom set, but recently I went to get a au505 in great condition for my main living room setup.
The au101 terminal is spartanic with regular screws and made for regular copper wire only. When using the au505 I assumed I would (also) be able to utilise this. But it turned out the au505's rear is no hybrid and made for pins or solid tin wires only. As the clip system kind of folds around them and this system does not work to get grip on soft strands (this is different from the 80s amps that had dedicated clips for bare wire)
Altough bare wire strands can 'optically' be connected and clipped in (the clips don't operate in their open enclosing position in this case) But..as I figured out later (and this is probably well described by AI)
The strands [collapse and spread instead of inserting cleanly.
Only a few strands may touch, creating high resistance or inconsistent contact.
This can lead to intermittent audio, dynamic compression-like effects, or even weird phase behavior—basically, the signal's being choked or modulated.
It is not something between the ears. It is definitely audible and absolutely measurably bad. But.. not that bad as in cracking, just shifted and exhaustingly compressor-like dynamics. The average non-hifi enthousiast consumer would probably just accept it.
Turning back to my regular 'pin-like solution' everything was solved again.
Of which I am kind of curious. Was this an example of which could have kickstarted the cable myth? A believe in bad cables rather than a believe in quirky terminals.
Any takes on this?
Long story short and a little spin-off topic. I owned a Sansui Au101 already for the master bedroom set, but recently I went to get a au505 in great condition for my main living room setup.
The au101 terminal is spartanic with regular screws and made for regular copper wire only. When using the au505 I assumed I would (also) be able to utilise this. But it turned out the au505's rear is no hybrid and made for pins or solid tin wires only. As the clip system kind of folds around them and this system does not work to get grip on soft strands (this is different from the 80s amps that had dedicated clips for bare wire)
Altough bare wire strands can 'optically' be connected and clipped in (the clips don't operate in their open enclosing position in this case) But..as I figured out later (and this is probably well described by AI)
The strands [collapse and spread instead of inserting cleanly.
Only a few strands may touch, creating high resistance or inconsistent contact.
This can lead to intermittent audio, dynamic compression-like effects, or even weird phase behavior—basically, the signal's being choked or modulated.
It is not something between the ears. It is definitely audible and absolutely measurably bad. But.. not that bad as in cracking, just shifted and exhaustingly compressor-like dynamics. The average non-hifi enthousiast consumer would probably just accept it.
Turning back to my regular 'pin-like solution' everything was solved again.
Of which I am kind of curious. Was this an example of which could have kickstarted the cable myth? A believe in bad cables rather than a believe in quirky terminals.
Any takes on this?
