Posted by WinField on 08/27/05 15:02

Steve(JazzHunter) wrote:
{snip}

> I'm not an engineer but have tons of workaday experience, and have to
> agree. A fraction of an ohm reistance on the shield connection can
> allow hum to creep in if there is an alternate ground route elsewhere
> that can put even a few microvolts of hum signal across the
> plug/socket connection. Also rectification can occur at the point of
> an aluminum-aluminum, and especially aluminum-Tin, connection, causing
> local radio to be demodulated and producing a "few microvolts" of
> voice and music. One of the connectors being Gold tends to eliminate
> the likelihood of rectification.
>
> .. Steve ..

Quality cables that don't have intermittent shield connections inside
their outer sheath covering will not have the problem(s) you describe,
regualar plug/jack metals notwithstanding.

Since you're a Jehovah's Witness for gold connects, and I don't have
time to argue your religion with you;

in closing:

I like pretty cables. They make me feel good. Gold connects shimmer.

I believe gold is used in critical circuitry because it does not corrode
- not because it has "magical" contact resistance that repairs all sorts
of other problems.

Catch you later, cable-guy
Winf :)

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