Neutrix. IMO/IME the silver plated ones are the ones to get, since they hold up better over time as opposed to those with gold because silver is a lot harder than gold. But if you don't plan on swapping cables much, the gold plated ones work just fine.What was the conclusion regarding the best XLR connectors money can buy?
Not at all. I saidJust like everything else, your bias is distorting your view of what I'm saying.
in response to Ron's question about what causes the capacitance in a single-ended cable. You saidThe shield is what creates the capacitance.
in our universe, its clear that you are talking about the shield (since the word 'shield' occurs twice in the quote just above...) and nothing else, elaborating on what I already had said. Yet you saidA shield's capacitance depends on how close it is to the conductors, with a good design this is minimized by spacing the shield further away.
These two responses were in the same quote!! A normal person on the street would perceive that as a contradiction. I see it that way too- its a hard argument to see it otherwise, and Occam's Razor strongly suggests doing so would be incorrect.Nope
As we both know, remove the shield and most single-ended cables won't read on a capacitance tester because they would only be looking at the capacitance of the connector and nothing else. A very small number of single-ended cables will read because the shield is not carrying the return connection, simply being a drain, so there is a second conductor that is doing the return circuit. But even if you measure one of those cables and remove the shield and measure the capacitance again, you'll find that the lion's share of the capacitance had to do with the shield. So while I gave the simple answer, it was 100% correct with +99% of cables, and only required this nuance to be correct for the tiny fraction that have two conductors inside the shield.