Bob, N5NJ, said:
>Make sure the connectors are tight too. Yes, use a pair of pliers to "snug"
>them up. Be careful not to over-tighten them though. It is possible to
>tighten them too much >and break the connector.
>Regardless of where they are, make sure the connectors are tight. You may
>need to loosen and re-tighten them periodically to assure the quality of those
>connections >over time.
These comments make sense if you are into RF.
20 years ago I got out of radio and got seriously into high-end analog audio
(amassing more than 3,000 LPs in the process). If I had a dollar for every
engineering-type who pooh-poohed my audio efforts, I could retire. The
pooh-poohing stopped when they heard a string quartet appear, live, in my
listening room. Audiophiles are into tweaks, and there even was a product
called "Tweak." The deal was, not only did you ensure that your connectors were
tight, you were instructed by the gurus to clean them regularly with chem-lab
pure water (I scored a bottle from a local ham), then apply Tweak. One lunatic
who wrote for The Absolute Sound swore by raising the cables, especially the
speaker cables, off the floor.
An important tweak -- which I never resorted to -- was to pull the mains power
to everything in the house except the hi-fi, to avoid those nasty Fields.
Jim Cain, K1TN/9
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