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In the Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage

Post Subject: (Not so) silver path con'edPosted by N-set on: 3/22/2013

Thank you for the input guys.

Paul, I hate those audiopedofile(tm) talks about connectors, but unfortunately I must go through it:
there is possibly one non-kosher element in my planned Ag path: Au-on-Cu Vampire, connectors soldered to silver cables.
Do you have any experience with such a combination in your phono context? Ideally I'd use pure silver
RCA's but i) Ag WBT's are prohibitively priced and the sockets do not appeal to me with the metal strip over a plastic(???)
ii) there are Ag Eichmann plugs reasonably priced but no matching Ag sockets?(their sockets are Au plated Cu, so used with their own
plugs gives Ag-Au-Cu conatct..."too many metals, Mozart!"). Prehaps there is a full Ag RCA-RCA set at reasonable $$$ or perhpas mixing metals
and a Au-Cu interruption in a phono silver path is good?

Cheers,
N-set

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