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Cardas Cold Forging

Has anyone tried the new Cardas option to have their speaker cable and connectors cold forged, making for a solid connection with no "connective" points with solder, etc. Sounds good in theory for line transmission, but can you hear any difference? If so what? I'm using Cardas Golden Reference. Pubul57  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread) 03-25-11

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Click title to read one, or click date to read all below it. 03-25-11   You can find more info on this process at http://www.carda ...   Pubul57 03-25-11   Doesn't look any different than any other good crimp imo.   Hifihvn 03-26-11   Pubul57, try audiogon user lenny_zwik, i believe he had hi ...   Jfrech 03-26-11   I guess the idea is to eliminate a solder connection, but i ...   Pubul57 03-26-11   It's a plain old fashion compression crimp that everyone has ...   Hifihvn 03-27-11   So it's amazing to me the opinions the fly around when the m ...   Jfrech 03-27-11   I agree with jfrech, it appears to be more than just your us ...   Clio09 03-27-11   I have a feeling i am going to have to try it, even though i ...   Pubul57 03-27-11   hand hydraulic crimpers have been around for decades that ar ...   Hifihvn 03-27-11   There lies the rub:)   Pubul57 03-28-11   I used to manufacture cable ...sold it in ny, nj, etc. i al ...   Stringreen 03-28-11   What i don't get is why cardas has not been doing this since ...   Pubul57 03-29-11   So what does this do when you consider that between each end ...   Mystang 03-29-11   A very good question, given the importance of the golden rat ...   Pubul57 03-29-11   Hi, thanks jfrech. yes i had my gr speaker cables reterminat ...   Lenny_zwik 03-30-11   You really think 400 bucks to reterminate is reasonable?? t ...   Keithr 03-30-11   Saves money. the idea of these terminals was to save the ind ...   Hifihvn 03-31-11   I would venture to say the only perfect solder connection wo ...   Tiggerfc 03-31-11   Have you heard them? if not, then you've no basis to make a ...   Lenny_zwik 03-31-11   anyone is entitled to an opinion about something like this. ...   Hifihvn 03-31-11   Anybody know the answer to this? when you forge metals you ...   Paulsax 03-31-11   imo the differences in electrical properties are out of ever ...   Almarg 04-01-11   Al, well said. hard to know what to do since i'm skeptical i ...   Pubul57 04-01-11   You can see here cardas two stage compression die forging ...   Lenny_zwik 04-01-11   Should have said "without" any gaps   Lenny_zwik 04-01-11   Lenny, i had looked at all of that before posting. and the ...   Almarg 04-01-11   The engineers i used to work with said that the purposes of ...   Kenyonbm 04-01-11   Cardas on soldering verus crimping: "when we look at c ...   Pubul57 04-02-11   Ultrasonic welding. http://www.ktu.lt/lt/mokslas/zurnalai/me ...   Magfan 04-02-11   Thanks, will read, but those pesky formulas:)   Pubul57 04-02-11   All said, $400 for retermination is definitely not vfm. whet ...   Pani 04-02-11   One thing i haven't seen addressed either in the cardas vide ...   Mitch2 04-02-11   Lenny, i'll give my opinion freely without question. thanks. ...   Tiggerfc 04-05-11   No, i don't have to prove sound quality is worth the $400. ...   Keithr 04-11-11   I had the process done on my golden reference for $300, and ...   Turboglo 04-11-11   Take a look at what bjc does with their speaker cables. of c ...   Airegin 04-11-11   Take a look at what bjc does with their speaker cables. of c ...   Airegin 04-11-11   You left the e out of blue, here is the correct link; http: ...   Mitch2 04-13-11   To everyone, the cost for cold forging a pair of single run ...   Bobbyapalkovic 04-13-11   Thank you bobby, you addressed my question from 4/2 about wh ...   Mitch2 04-13-11   Mitch, day one: old terminations removed. ends are dipped i ...   Bobbyapalkovic 04-13-11   Geez bobby, sorry but i totally missed tuboglo's post. i am ...   Mitch2 04-14-11   This process of doing this this does not leave you with a so ...   Hifihvn 04-14-11   The copper wires are pressed together and extruded. they are ...   Bobbyapalkovic 04-14-11   they can be cut open quite easily, and that would reveal th ...   Hifihvn 04-15-11   H, are you usually this argumentative about things you canno ...   Bobbyapalkovic 04-15-11   Here is a nice pic of the cut open connection. some possibl ...   Jfrech 04-15-11   there is a huge gap between seem, and is. they are not, at ...   Hifihvn 04-15-11   I rest my case. he is just going to be argumentative to the ...   Bobbyapalkovic 04-15-11   It isn't supposed to be an argument like you state. it would ...   Hifihvn 04-15-11   Then you have a very funny way of finding facts. rather than ...   Bobbyapalkovic 04-15-11   Well to me, it looks like a great termination process, and i ...   Heymikey 04-15-11: Hifihvn It's not my job. Hifihvn  (Answers | This Thread) 04-15-11   So if you had some ofc wire and some great terminations and ...   Theaudiotweak 04-15-11   You crimped a penny onto the end of your speaker wires ;~)   Swampwalker 04-15-11   Yea thats what i did well before the appearance of 6-9's cop ...   Theaudiotweak 04-16-11   What happened to all the trains??? the three near me have al ...   Tom6897 08-10-11   It is funny to me that all the talk is forging wire to spade ...   Tedbaron 08-10-11   I have often pondered the same thoughts ted.   Tpreaves 08-10-11   Tedbaron & tpreaves- you guys are on a slippery slope! the ...   Swampwalker 08-10-11   That teleportation stuff is for real. i called them last nig ...   Tpreaves 08-10-11   I have three purple microdots on each speaker, and i still c ...   Pubul57 08-11-11   Put them under your tongue silly!!!!   Tpreaves 08-11-11   The $300 (or $400) cold forged connections are 8 (or 12) tot ...   Tedbaron 08-11-11   It worked!!!!!!   Pubul57 08-16-11   Are we talking red dots, or crimping?   Egidius

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