General Lighting wrote:
a small adaptor like that, provided it has no loose connections, will make no difference to the sound quality.
Most of the stuff chatted about “premium connectors” in hi-fi/sound engineering is complete rubbish invented to sell overpriced goods, you just need them to be well-constructed and not fall apart (particularly if you are actually playing out as opposed to just making tunes in a project studio).
I once worked for a company that kitted out the BBC, Anglia and Rapture amongst other broadcasters and all the professionals just used the standard XLRs and other connectors out of RS, Farnell and Canford – although they preferred metal body connectors and heavy duty cable for robustness.
You’d probably be able to get all the stuff you need in the Ipswich store but I’d check with them first that they’ve got it in stock if you are travelling down specially…
Aye – for sure. The only advantage of gold connectors is they don’t corrode as easily as other metals (unless your connections are getting damp regularly, in which case you have other problems anyway, you won’t have any trouble with corrosion)… And gold is a bloody useless conductor of electricity, as well as being a very soft metal and so prone to becoming misshapen if handled “roughly”….
And as for cable, don’t even go there…:crazy_dru The amount of steaming horse sh*t* spoken by people trying to sell cable for more cash really does beggar belief – Unless it’s a mic cable, or some other kind of high impedance source (where the capacitance of a long cable run can make a difference), the cable just needs to satisfy 2 basic criteria – 1) can it handle the power you are going to feed through it without melting/setting fire, and 2)is it strong enough to stand up to what you intend to use it for…..
I use 16amp mains cable for all speaker connections in the rig, and standard installation cable (£30 for 100m) for the interconnects between electronic boxes (with standard metal xlr’s/jacks/speakons as appropriate for connectors) – which I make myself so I know they’re well made :groucho:. Doesn’t take a huge amount of skill with a soldering iron, and means you can connect pretty much anything to anything if you have a selection connectors….
its a 3.5mm stereo coupler, it’ll allow you to put the 3.5mm jack from your speakers in one end and the 3.5mm jack from the phono to jack cable in the other.. you can get them in maplins.. that one is a gold one as it £1.89 but u can get them cheaper likes..
