Gonna order me a crap load of them single socket jobs that come in a line of 10-20 and they break apart for single individual use.  Can't decide to order the Mill Max from small bear or the Tycos from Mouser.  Who makes a better product?  
Also is gold plated really that much better?  I would think just solid nickel or whatever the contacts are made of would be better. I mean if you gold plate something that is just one more medium that the signal is going to have to pass through.  Wouldn't it be better to just go plain (no plating at all). That way there would be less things for the signal to pass through.

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Quote from: BluesgeetarGonna order me a crap load of them single socket jobs that come in a line of 10-20 and they break apart for single individual use.  Can't decide to order the Mill Max from small bear or the Tycos from Mouser.  Who makes a better product?   :?

Either is fine --I'd go with small bear for anything he stocks.

Quote from: BluesgeetarAlso is gold plated really that much better?  :?

Gold doesn't oxidize/corrode --which is an issue with un-soldered connections. Over time your nickel connection can oxidize.

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Gold doesn't oxidize/corrode --which is an issue with un-soldered connections. Over time your nickel connection can oxidize.

Gold doesn't oxidize, but it can make the other side of the contact oxidize faster if it is not gold plated too.

When you're using wires...almost no [none] electrical activity takes place in the core of the wire.
 Almost all the electrons that 'move' 'in' a wire are right on the very surface...the same thing is true with your brain...and would be true also of this planet,,,except this planet has the Extremely rare quality of having an enourmous generator as it's core...that why we have a magnetic field [which by the way is in it's lessening stage or down sweep of it's extremely LFO...the magnetic field is 'retracting' and getting weaker].
  Anyway electricity much prefers to 'travel' on the surface of a conductor...that's why sometimes in high tach applications which use expensive conductors..that can save big enough to use tubular connectors///much greater surface area per volume.

...except in my car: from the battery to the starter, I wouldn`t use skinny "tubes"... rather fat cables... (but here there is no high frequency involved...)

I came to the conclustion i hate those gold mill max ones..bout a lot a while back and i dont like them..I jus dont think there that sturdy--Compared to when a take apart a 8 pin ic socket and pull out the leafs i dont need..that way i dont waste the xtra gold plated pins between the holes.. Give em a try..c what ya think.