Electrics for AV/audio - sockets or strips?

[John Williamson]

Maybe you need stereo glasses to see it right?

[John Williamson]

Look at *any* plug and socket combination with a good enough microscope, and you will see a very small contact area due to the roughness of the mating surfaces. The main controls over this area are the softness and mating pressures of the contacts. A jack with good pressure and a soft metal plating may have better actual contact area and resistance than a

13 amp plug with hard plating and weak springs.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The laws of physics don't change - and I'd believe him rather than the likes of you any day.

Would that be the same as the life of LED or CFL lamps in practice?

The fact is jacks of all types have been phased out of high end professional equipment and installations - and not a moment too soon. That pub PA systems still use them is neither here nor there. And if you'd had any experience of using such things you'd know why.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

FFS, Arfa. The question was about a suitable connector for a high quality domestic installation. Not for some low quality pub PA setup.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

No - since he's not talking about what would be considered a high quality domestic installation. Which isn't so different from that used in a studio control room etc. Unless, of course, if you consider pub PA systems high quality.

Tony Sayer deals with such things too - and you've seen his comments.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And you have shown yourself to live up perfectly to your moniker. ;-)

[tony sayer]

Peter Walker was one of the best audio engineers around for his time and had very high standards. I consider myself lucky to have met the man and worked from him for a while....

As well as Rupert Neve and Dr Derek Scotland:)..

And Peter Walkers son Ross..

[tony sayer]

I rather expect they make them as best as that design permits;!...

Can't fault their XLR range of products..

[Dave Plowman (News)]

He was responsible for the finest loudspeaker ever (when used within its limits) which others still use as a benchmark some 60 years later.

If that's being out of date, wish there were more like him. ;-)