Viborg

[amper42]

Nice plugs

 

[staticV3]

More pronounced treble will clearly show up in measurements or audio recordings. Even your phone would show it.

If it can't, then you've fallen into the same expectation bias trap as countless other people before you.

Basically: pics or didn't happen (wav files are fine, too)

 

[Saponetto]

Long time user of Viborg banana plugs here.
Always chose bare copper ones for all of my speaker cables, and never had to regret about their performance or look at any gold/rhodium/silver coated replacement.
I'd like to know which kind of enhancement do these coated plugs actually offer, but it seems to me too adjacent to any of "tube connector" threads, so I elegantly pass.

 

[DVDdoug]

Once I AB compare the silver vs straight copper I'll have a better idea.

It's easy to fool yourself in a sighted test. What is a blind ABX test?

There's no logical, scientific, reason for connectors or cables to make a difference unless something is defective, or you have a bad connection, or unshielded line-level connections, or speaker cables of inadequate gauge, etc.

...With acoustic measurements in a room you are likely to get some differences even if you don't change anything. Awhile back I was doing some experiments with high frequency test tones and an SPL meter on a microphone stand and I was getting variations of a few dB just moving around behind the SPL meter.

 

[VintageFlanker]

I still have a set of these (VB401, copper version without plating) and I happen to measure amps with them. Turns out that they do not perform any different whatsoever than any other regular brass/gold plated bananas I have on hands.

You obviously imagined what you heard. To state the obvious.

 

[Guddu]

@amper42
“The treble was more pronounced and crisper. The sound quality of my music playback at my normal levels of 60-75dB was more up front and in your face. The OPENNESS and transparency of the music was better than I had experienced. Each track was more identifiable and crystal clear.”

Are you implying that these plugs resulted in elevated high frequency response? And if it did make it (probably slightly) brighter then basically you are brighter sound in your system.
In many cases, slightly elevated highs could give that difference provided your speakers then don’t add anything further.

 

[Iani]

Nice plugs

I used Viborg AC plugs (Euro Schuko and IEC, both gold plated) on a Furutech bulk power cable, and I can confirm the rich treble energy as peculiar property of the Viborg connectors. So, two people in different places and with different ears, have the same acoustic bias.....coincidence??