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Eichmann Bayonet plugs user experience


I was going to have a new speaker cables terminated with the eichmann bayonet plugs, when the dealer advise me of this situation:

"We've found that, while there is a small reliability issue with Bayonet plugs, it's not due to the solder connection. There's a nylon shaft with a copper sheath wrapped around it and in some cases we've seen the copper shaft bend away from the nylon sheath. While we think the Bayonet is the best sounding connector for speaker cables, we do like to inform customers about this issue. But they work just fine, and we do recommend the Bayonet plugs. You just have to be a little more careful with them."

Just wonder if other users have encountered the same issue.
greeni
thermonicavenger
30 posts
 
Over-priced, under-performing and flimsy. They are an Australian company and I am an Aussie!, still no love lost here. I switched to DH Labs Silver Sonic and never looked back. Being a Jeweller fiddly doesn't bother me but as I connect and disconnect often flimsy does. Subjectively the DH Labs was an improvement in reliability, resolution and audio bling. Just make sure what you connect it to is worthy.
devilboy
1,172 posts
 
ABSOLUTELY WILL NEVER GET EICHMANN BAYONET PLUGS AGAIN. Before I recieved them, I was told to be very careful, and I heard about their reliability issue. I literally laid down on the floor, on my stomach, eye level with the speaker's binding posts, using two hands, CAREFULLY inserted the FIRST banana, and the copper sheath slid back into the plug. THE FIRST ONE I DID! That happened on three different plugs. I bent two others. OUT OF TWELVE BANANAS IN MY SYSTEM, FIVE WERE DAMMAGED. Give me a break! Yes the Eichmanns sound wonderful, I will say that. Also, once they are bent, technically they still work, but come on. Five out of twelve? I've been into audio for twenty years. I know how to connect cables.
As for someone above who said they "...switched them hundreds of times without a problem..." Yeah..sure. Sounds like a dealer to me.
I've since replaced the Eichmanns with something else.
You've been warned.
dopogue
1,773 posts
 
Not a dealer. Can't duplicate your experience. Yours may have been defective. Mine are still in fine shape, though I've gone to bare wire. BTW, I'm 79. Maybe you're too young to be able to handle them :-)
devilboy
1,172 posts
 
Five defective plugs out of twelve? You're probably right. Maybe if I bought twenty four I could finish the job. BTW, two of my friends have the Eichmanns and both reported plugs falling apart. Or, maybe I'm just too young to find the hole.
dopogue
1,773 posts
 
Okay, your problem was intriguing enough that I took some of mine and tried them in every banana jack I could find. In only one case -- one of those in-wall connectors -- the Eichmann was too long for the hole and didn't make a good connection. In every other case there was no problem at all, and these ones of mine have been used to death and are still totally serviceable.

Are you SURE you assembled them properly. You slide the metal part through the black plastic, then slide the blue plastic on the shaft and lock it to the blue part with a twist. I just can't figure out why this doesn't work for you unless there is something very strange about your banana jacks. Doesn't make sense. Dave
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