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… besides the “Superior Electric” but you can’t buy it anywhere beside the Allied Electric.  I have no idea why others do not see them.

cv wrote:

Prosaic question - what's the part number for these? Finally building some LF arrays and need a good few reasonably priced good sounding posts... sounds like these will fit the bill.

You might find them in Allied catalog at 

http://www.alliedelec.com/catalog/pf.aspx?FN=434.pdf

Look at the middle of the page, all those BP30s are good. Years back, when I build ridicules external crossover for AG Trio I have done very thorough investigation into the sound of the binding posts. I know, it sounds stupid but I did buy all of them and I did listen all of them – I still have that shoe box with all imaginable binding posts. It was a strange conclusion:  the more the binding posts looks and feel “hi-endish” then more horrible it sounds. The worst of them were the most expensive large WBT posts. The Superior Electric were hand and shoulder better then anything I have tried.

What I concluded that it is not the Superior Electric posts themselves are the key but the design type. Most of the Hi-Fi company tries to make the post to look impressive making it “large”. That excessive amount of metals in the connection fucks up sound very much, making bass hollow.  What is important is to have a binding post that would not introduce too much gauge difference in connection area relative to the rest of your cable.

The Superior Electric post do not look very impressive, in fact the look very cheap but they are have absolutely no competition in term of sound quality. Thai is perhaps you would never see them in high-end equipment.

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