23-Nov-2023, 13:38
Hey Sébastien,
I forgot to say that the original binding post are of very, very poor quality. They belong to the cheapest China-Brass-Shiny-Gold-Plated Binding Posts on the market.
It makes a huge difference in sound quality if you exchange them for e.g. WBT Next Gen Binding Posts (see Duomike's post).
Alternatively...you can build yourself some "binding" posts as I did. I used a piece of solid carbon and drilled holes for some very thin pure copper silver plated banana-sleeves inside it.
You have to insulate the banana-sleeves (w/ shrinking tube) and then glue them inside the drilled holes. This is by far the best sounding mass-less-electrical-speaker-cable-connection I've come around with minimal eddy currents and it really sounds awesome.
I did the exact same modification to a WA Sophia 3 binding post terminal and the effect on the sound was like opening a dam. Everything got so much more control and thrust, bass and spatial stage got so much more detail to it...the difference was amazing.
Pictures for explanation:
1. Sophia 3 mod: Banana sleeve (inside of carbon panel)
2. Sophia 3 mod: outside
3. Original Sophia 3 binding posts (not sounding good)
4. Sophia 3 mod: crossover/installed LS-terminal and speaker cable modification to high/mid/low speaker
5. Carbon block w/ Banana sleeves (unfortunately can not be seen in picture
but technically the same as with the Sophia 3)
I forgot to say that the original binding post are of very, very poor quality. They belong to the cheapest China-Brass-Shiny-Gold-Plated Binding Posts on the market.
It makes a huge difference in sound quality if you exchange them for e.g. WBT Next Gen Binding Posts (see Duomike's post).
Alternatively...you can build yourself some "binding" posts as I did. I used a piece of solid carbon and drilled holes for some very thin pure copper silver plated banana-sleeves inside it.
You have to insulate the banana-sleeves (w/ shrinking tube) and then glue them inside the drilled holes. This is by far the best sounding mass-less-electrical-speaker-cable-connection I've come around with minimal eddy currents and it really sounds awesome.
I did the exact same modification to a WA Sophia 3 binding post terminal and the effect on the sound was like opening a dam. Everything got so much more control and thrust, bass and spatial stage got so much more detail to it...the difference was amazing.
Pictures for explanation:
1. Sophia 3 mod: Banana sleeve (inside of carbon panel)
2. Sophia 3 mod: outside
3. Original Sophia 3 binding posts (not sounding good)
4. Sophia 3 mod: crossover/installed LS-terminal and speaker cable modification to high/mid/low speaker
5. Carbon block w/ Banana sleeves (unfortunately can not be seen in picture
but technically the same as with the Sophia 3)
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