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Debugger - benficus@hotmail.com (Ben Ficus) wrote: Speaking of which ... Last time I was at Best Buy, they were telling me that I should buy the expensive "gold" USB connector for my printer ... the other cable will affect the quality of my prints. Any thoughts, opinions? [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Radio Shack *used to* (maybe still does in some places) make that claim about the expensive gold-plated connectors in almost all applications, coax connectors, etc. I have never been able to figure out *why* the gold-plated versions of the various size/type connectors are supposed to be better. Our local Radio Shack store no longer makes that claim, however. PAT]The theory is that gold is less likely to corrode. Also, there's themental effect that if you pay more for it it must be better.I don't think there's any advantage if you know how to make really goodconnections. Gold doesn't conduct as well as copper, so that's a smalldisadvantage. Pure silver is the best conductor among common metals,but silver wiring would be pricy. www.homegrownaudio will sell you a 1meter cable for $109.95; www.the-discount-store.com will sell you 14gauge silver wire for $8/foot.Monster Cable Sigma Retro Gold Speaker Cables retail for $1250 for a 5foot pair. As far as I know, there are no independently verifieddouble-blind studies showing that such cables convey sound any betterthan plain copper from Home Depot properly installed.Jack Hamiltonjfh@acm.orgIn the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted comfort andsecurity. And in the end, they lost it all - freedom, comfort andsecurity. Edward Gibbons[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Now isn't that something! $1250 for afive foot pair. Perhaps someone with virgin ears -- it would take apair of those -- will help me do an independent verification of thisclaim. Bring one of those cables; I will provide the Mahler symphonyand we will check it out relative to my little old Bose radio/CD(which, by the way, did not come cheap either unless you feel thata four hundred plus dollars radio/CD combination is cheap.) The Boseclaim to fame is the quality audio from little speakers close together.And it does sound good, just like one of the old Grundigs from yearsago. It also has a place for an external antenna to be connected, if Iwere brave and wanted to climb on the roof of my house to install one.Instead, I use the connection to Cable One and let them handle it. Not'cable radio' as such, but as an 'antenna' for over the air radio fromtheir local tower over at 14th and Oak Streets where a totally free(of any charges) crystal-controlled radio sits in the tower andretransmits Tulsa PBS (89.5) and classical music KRPS (89.9) at nocharge to interested parties. PAT]
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