musicforcities
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I ran across this “tube connector” from “GR Research” those dudes who make $300 crossover mods for $200 speakers. Their claims regarding the tube connectors are snake oil and the prices ludicrous for what they are. They are little more than a female banana plug (copper gold plated ones available on Amazon for pennies each, not $50/pair+) or a male to male adapter (a 4mm tube of plated copper, a pack of 8 for a few bucks on amazon) with the internal wire soldered to one end end the other end stuck in a hole drilled through the speaker do the same?
However i do have a question regarding the premise that “low mass” connectors are somehow better. Presuming the connectors are decent conductive material abs area of contact equal wouldn’t more mass generally mean less resistance (within reason)
I ask because speakon connectors seem to be “low mass” as well. And I have been thinking about using them for a refurb. Not sure it’s worth the hassle however. So was just curious if there is some basis for the low mass idea.
Anyway, if one hates binding posts so much, there is already a professional standard developed…Speakon. one could even go 4 pole for biamping if that’s ones sort of thing. One hole in the cabinet gives 2-4 connections. Think of how much space could be saved!
Have the dudes at GR never heard of those? They could offer cyro frozen ones with carbon fiber housing gs if they really want to bilk some consumer.
Sorry it was just the most bananas, relatively overpriced, and misleading, snake oil tweak I have seen since audioquest put unconnected batteries on cables.
However i do have a question regarding the premise that “low mass” connectors are somehow better. Presuming the connectors are decent conductive material abs area of contact equal wouldn’t more mass generally mean less resistance (within reason)
I ask because speakon connectors seem to be “low mass” as well. And I have been thinking about using them for a refurb. Not sure it’s worth the hassle however. So was just curious if there is some basis for the low mass idea.
Anyway, if one hates binding posts so much, there is already a professional standard developed…Speakon. one could even go 4 pole for biamping if that’s ones sort of thing. One hole in the cabinet gives 2-4 connections. Think of how much space could be saved!
Have the dudes at GR never heard of those? They could offer cyro frozen ones with carbon fiber housing gs if they really want to bilk some consumer.
Sorry it was just the most bananas, relatively overpriced, and misleading, snake oil tweak I have seen since audioquest put unconnected batteries on cables.
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