Viborg binding posts?

Why is there this idea general misconception that "copper is too soft" in the Audiophile world?

Have you tried squashing a copper Pipe by hand? It's not possible, and that's thin walled copper with a hole in the middle!

There is absolutely no reason not to use those Viborg Binding posts. They are really well made, heavy duty and high quality. I have used them before, and I have just sent a set to Australia for a guys 686 and he loves them.

Personally, I prefer direct gold on to copper plate, rather than gold on to silver like these.

CMC make some:

www.hificollective.co.uk/binding_posts/cmc-858lcu-gold-plated-long-speaker-terminals.html

They are long, as they don't sell the short version and you need a spacer if your chassis is less than 8mm thick, as the thread doesn't run all the way up.

When I hard wired all of my connections as an experiment, the CMC connections were the closest to that level of performance I could find.

They are 99% as good as having soldered joint.

Sounds like you have your engineering head on rather than your audiophile head Kevin 

If it is slightly malleable wouldn't that make for a better connection, i.e more surface area would be in contact?

I read somewhere = no idea if it is true - that your typical connecter only has about 5% contact because of the variations in surface level at the microscopic level.

I don't have an Audiophile head. Maybe I should ask Wurzel Gummidge if I can borrow his.
I tend to use my enginears head.

May be I should look at the polished WBT connectors then? 
That will decrease the surface imperfections.

The other thing is that I don't want to be cleaning them on a regular basis. I am too lazy for that...
So, is gold plating on a malleable surface likely to stay in place?

I have my doubts.

Yup,

When you start looking into these types of things it's quite surprising, isn't it.

The WBT 0705Cu are 99.996% copper. 75 bucks a pop. 

2 schools of thought 

1) Do it once do it right
2) Let's not kid ourselves that this will make any difference whatsoever to the sound quality.

I believe 2) but if it was my build I'd still go with 1)

I have gone for some Viborg pure copper, gold plated posts.
I have done some reading, and they seem to be highly rated. They also exhibit at the high-end audio shows, so are likely to be real.
Audiophonics used to sell CMC, but have stopped.

I didn’t want a lack of binding posts to stop my build.

I did buy some WBT nextgen pure copper, but they won’t fit the 19mm post spacing.
Something I wish I had spotted before I got my case machined.

Cardas make some decent pure copper stuff.

You won't go wrong with the Viborg.

I use loads of their gear and it's high quality.

Sump plugs are copper, the spanner is cro-moly.

Your speaker posts are copper, so is your speaker wire.

Buy ones with a decent thread pitch on them not some 0.5mm pitch nonsense and they'll clamp down plenty tight.

I use the short silver cmc on my amps, no issue with 17 x 0.4mm wire.

Exactly, copper on copper wire is no issue, they're equally strong.

Another interesting point is the response time from the manufacturers.

I contacted ETI for some info, and had a rwsponse within a working day. I contacted WBT just after, and I am still waiting for a response.

I did not contact Viborg, but I guess it would have been a good idea to see their reactivity.