Speakon NL4FX - a step backwards?

I just put the 4mm cable in the hole on the FX.  Goes in fine!  Don't know how you guys manage to have problems with these things     

so for those of you crimping 4mm cables to speakon socket tabs, what kind of crimps are ye using?

so these solder onto the cable, and clip onto the tag. in the past when i've used these, i've soldered them onto the tags too just to be sure, if i know i won't be in there trying to swap things round in the forseeable future.

To the soldering guys.
Are just using regular tin and lead solder or have you tried the once mixed with silver?
Higher meltingpoint and better conductor.

yup. Caberet in the pussy parlour  
safe from the mud 

cant say i particularly like the new spkns..

just made some cables up using 4mm, 4core, armored 3 phase cable & they barely fitted in there.

also the crimp on connections thing re opus.. i kind of find that a little suspect. heres an experiment to try, make soldered connections on part of a cable, then some crimp connectors inline ..and see how it sounds. then try it with soldering across the crimps.. the only difference which should be observable here is that one will have a weaker link in part of the chain.. ie the crimps. Where there is an observed difference, it will be where the crimps prove detrimental. the presence of the soldered joint in both tests will show that it has no influence in itself ;)
if you find this debatable, open the lid of your amp and look at all the soldered connections feeding that amplified signal out of there. which is unavoidable; thus if you are observing a difference, like the cables described.. its not because theres a soldered connection inline ;)


Edited by nineleaves - 06 June 2008 at 9:20pm