A few people have asked me why did we use Gold plated mains plugs.
Well in the late 1970s and just after Magnum, I saw Chris Frankland and the belated Malcom Stewart cleaning a polishing there 15A UK round pin plugs and sockets conductors, it was just coming up to Xmas so for a kind joke I Gold Plated some 15Amp Round plugs and sockets. Ant sent them to there homes. A the time a odd ball Hi-fi Mag had just started called "The Flat Response" by these two gents. It was wee bit biased towards Naim and Linn for a few of the public, but both of them had just done a lovely review a for month or so before on my Magnum designs and before my forced departure from Magnum by Mr Relf ( a accountant and a now familiar story of my life).
Chris rang me that they were amazing and made the music just so much better, but could I change the name on them, well I had them silk screened with " Goldunmains" ( a joke) Chris and Malcolm came up with the name "Inca Tech".
Inca Tech and I went on to sell thousands of plugs and socket via dealers and Harold in London (the man there moved to Somerset , Jim was his name and that were I met Quickie a good friend).
Now every Tom Dick and Cho do gold plated mains including copy cat like The Chord company.
Having done lots of test on this gold product range like temperature rise etc and other plating I found that Silver was good BUT after time oxidised and caused dust to join up and conduct inside the plugs, this then catch fire so this was quickly stopped. Unless you are able to clean them inside and out please do not use silver plated mains plugs. The worse was Rhodium a poor conductor and the plugs pins temperature climbed 10C at 3KW more than gold.
Now lots of copies of my ideas some much improved are out there BUT be warned some are not plated properly Gold onto Brass flakes of without a base metal plating i.e. Nickel these can cause problems.
Well in the late 1970s and just after Magnum, I saw Chris Frankland and the belated Malcom Stewart cleaning a polishing there 15A UK round pin plugs and sockets conductors, it was just coming up to Xmas so for a kind joke I Gold Plated some 15Amp Round plugs and sockets. Ant sent them to there homes. A the time a odd ball Hi-fi Mag had just started called "The Flat Response" by these two gents. It was wee bit biased towards Naim and Linn for a few of the public, but both of them had just done a lovely review a for month or so before on my Magnum designs and before my forced departure from Magnum by Mr Relf ( a accountant and a now familiar story of my life).
Chris rang me that they were amazing and made the music just so much better, but could I change the name on them, well I had them silk screened with " Goldunmains" ( a joke) Chris and Malcolm came up with the name "Inca Tech".
Inca Tech and I went on to sell thousands of plugs and socket via dealers and Harold in London (the man there moved to Somerset , Jim was his name and that were I met Quickie a good friend).
Now every Tom Dick and Cho do gold plated mains including copy cat like The Chord company.
Having done lots of test on this gold product range like temperature rise etc and other plating I found that Silver was good BUT after time oxidised and caused dust to join up and conduct inside the plugs, this then catch fire so this was quickly stopped. Unless you are able to clean them inside and out please do not use silver plated mains plugs. The worse was Rhodium a poor conductor and the plugs pins temperature climbed 10C at 3KW more than gold.
Now lots of copies of my ideas some much improved are out there BUT be warned some are not plated properly Gold onto Brass flakes of without a base metal plating i.e. Nickel these can cause problems.
, I have a ic-25 interconnect cable for sale in the classifieds if anyone is interested.