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Originally Posted by Hartley118
An overwhelming advantage we get from doing a bit of DIY tweaking is that afterwards it encourages more careful listening, so we actually hear more detail. The most likely actual electrical improvement is that the connectors have been re-inserted and cleaned up a bit. Phono connectors are notorious for poor contact and are probably to blame for many audible problems.
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Agreed. Gold plated cables are as cheap as chips nowadays, no need to spend a fortune on them. Otherwise, it has been proven that poor contact between connectors can lead to a small diode effect - like a cat's whisker - whereby a degree of rectification is taking place. Old, dirty, corroded, nickel plated phono connectors are a good candidate in that respect. So yes, nice, clean gold connectors are a good thing for sure. But a few pounds will buy you a
sufficiently well screened,
sufficiently low capacitance, gold plated contacts phono interconnection cable.