speaker connections

[Marvel]

7 hours ago, babadono said:

8 hours ago, Marvel said:

it won't tarnish as much.

It won't tarnish at all. That is why it is used...get dirty..yes of course anything can get dirty.

 

I fixed it.. my brain just had a momentary short circuit.. 🤯

[Shakeydeal]

22 minutes ago, babadono said:

Ain't that just a nutdriver?

 

Yeah, but it's an Audiophile Approved nut driver 😁

[The Dude]

Anyone have an Audiophile torque spec for those binding post? I am always afraid I am missing out on sound by over tightening or not tightening enough. 

 

[Edgar]

9 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Anyone have an Audiophile torque spec for those binding post? I am always afraid I am missing out on sound by over tightening or not tightening enough. 

 

If the wire falls out, it's too loose. If the binding post breaks off, it's too tight.

[MEH Synergy]

11 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Anyone have an Audiophile torque spec for those binding post? I am always afraid I am missing out on sound by over tightening or not tightening enough. 

 

32.69 nm 

[CWOReilly]

59 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Anyone have an Audiophile torque spec for those binding post? I am always afraid I am missing out on sound by over tightening or not tightening enough. 

 

Glad I wasn’t drinking when I read that. 

[babadono]

12 minutes ago, CWOReilly said:

Glad I wasn’t drinking when I read that. 

The old milk through the nose and onto your monitor

[CWOReilly]

1 hour ago, babadono said:

The old milk through the nose and onto your monitor

Well my phone anyway

[michaelwjones]

Yes; a very specific one that is half the length on my nutdrivers. And its in my tube drawer rather than the garage.

[Islander]

5 hours ago, Marvel said:

 

Gold actually has a higher resistance than copper, but it won't tarnish as much.

 

Sure, but as Edgar pointed out, when the bridge has a big cross section and is only a few inches long, the resistance is below the ability of nearly any ohmmeter to indicate, so even splitting hairs doesn’t convey how slight the differences are between the various conductors and configurations of them.  

 

To further confuse the discussion, my La Scala IIs came with wire jumpers that are kind of narrow, with possibly a smaller cross section than the flat bridges.  But they look cool.

[ZagatoAudio]

I split the difference and put one in the top and one in the bottom. The straps always seem come a bit loose so I use a nut driver to snug them up. I thought about just using a wire in place of the straps just to be sure. Maybe use both?

[Moh]

There is a better way I figured to hold the head of the terminal pug to pull out. First I loosened the terminals and removed the jumper. Then I tightened by hand the terminal.

It can now screw in an extra couple of mm (thickness of jumpers) . This makes the plug cap(as long as not broken)  stick out a couple of mm and makes a whole lot easier to grab and pull out.