Oyaide SGBN Banana plug that combines the advantages of silver and gold plating while achieving durability

Oyaide SGBN Banana Plug Overview

The Oyaide SGBN is a high-quality banana plug designed to deliver exceptional signal transmission and durability, making it an ideal choice for audiophiles and professionals who demand the best connection for their speaker cables. The SGBN combines the advantages of silver and gold plating, resulting in a plug that offers both superior conductivity and long-lasting performance. This combination ensures a stable, reliable, and high-fidelity connection between your speaker cables and audio equipment, allowing you to experience every detail and nuance of your music with clarity and precision.

Key Features

1. Silver and Gold Plating Combination:
   • The Oyaide SGBN banana plug features a dual-layer plating process that combines the high conductivity of silver with the corrosion resistance and durability of gold. This unique combination offers the best of both worlds: the superior signal transmission properties of silver and the long-lasting, oxidation-resistant qualities of gold.
   • The silver layer provides excellent electrical conductivity, ensuring that your audio signal remains clear, detailed, and dynamic, while the gold layer protects the plug from tarnishing and oxidation over time, maintaining a consistent and high-quality connection.
2. High-Precision Brass Base Material:
   • The base material of the SGBN plug is made from high-quality brass, which is precisely machined to ensure a secure and stable fit. Brass is known for its durability and strength, providing a solid foundation for the plug while maintaining good conductivity.
   • The precision machining ensures that the plug fits snugly into your speaker terminals, preventing any unwanted movement or signal loss.
3. Spring-Loaded Contact Design:
   • The SGBN features a spring-loaded contact design, which ensures a secure and stable connection when inserted into speaker terminals. This design minimizes the risk of contact failure or signal degradation, even in environments with vibrations or movement.
   • The spring mechanism also allows for easy insertion and removal, making the SGBN plug both user-friendly and reliable.
4. Solderless Design for Easy Installation:
   • The SGBN banana plug offers a solderless design, making it quick and easy to attach to your speaker cables without the need for special tools or soldering equipment. This design not only simplifies installation but also ensures that the connection remains secure and stable over time.
   • The plug can accommodate speaker cables with various wire sizes, making it versatile and suitable for different audio setups.
5. Durable and Corrosion-Resistant Construction:
   • Thanks to the combination of silver and gold plating, the SGBN plug is highly resistant to corrosion, tarnishing, and oxidation, ensuring long-term durability and consistent performance.
   • This makes the SGBN an excellent choice for audiophiles and professionals who want a reliable and high-quality connection that will last for years.

Benefits for Audiophiles and Professionals

• Superior Signal Transmission: The silver and gold plating combination ensures that the SGBN plug delivers a clear, detailed, and accurate audio signal, preserving the integrity of your music and audio components.
• Durable and Long-Lasting: The gold layer protects the plug from oxidation and tarnishing, ensuring that it maintains a high-quality connection over time, even in demanding environments.
• Easy Installation: The solderless design and spring-loaded contact make the SGBN plug easy to install, adjust, and remove, providing a user-friendly solution for any audio setup.

Recommended Usage

• High-End Audio Systems: Ideal for connecting speaker cables to amplifiers, receivers, or speakers in high-fidelity audio setups, ensuring a clean and stable connection.
• Professional Studio Equipment: Suitable for use in recording studios, mastering suites, and other professional audio environments where signal integrity is crucial.
• Home Theater Systems: Perfect for enhancing the connection between your speaker cables and audio components in high-end home theater setups.

Why Choose Oyaide SGBN Banana Plug?

1. Silver and Gold Plating for Optimal Performance: The combination of silver’s conductivity and gold’s durability ensures that the SGBN plug provides superior signal transmission and long-lasting performance.
2. Easy Installation: The solderless, spring-loaded design makes the SGBN plug user-friendly and easy to install, even for those with limited technical experience.
3. Durable Construction: The high-quality materials and dual-layer plating ensure that the SGBN plug remains corrosion-resistant and reliable, providing consistent performance over time.

Pricing and Availability

• Price: The Oyaide SGBN banana plug is sold individually or in sets, with pricing varying depending on the retailer and quantity purchased.
• Availability: Available through authorized Oyaide dealers, high-end audio retailers, and online stores specializing in audiophile-grade accessories.

Installation Tips

• Ensure that the speaker cable is securely attached to the SGBN plug by following the instructions provided. The solderless design allows you to achieve a stable connection without the need for soldering.
• Insert the plug firmly into the speaker terminals to take full advantage of the spring-loaded contact design, ensuring a tight and reliable connection.

The Oyaide SGBN Banana Plug is a top-quality solution for audiophiles and professionals who seek the best in signal transmission, durability, and ease of use. By combining the advantages of silver and gold plating with a high-precision design, the SGBN plug ensures that your speaker cables maintain a stable and high-fidelity connection to your audio components. Whether you’re setting up a high-end home audio system, professional studio, or home theater, the SGBN provides the reliability and performance needed for a superior listening experience.

Basic

Oyaide Electric will release “SGBN” sterling silver + thick-wall 24K gold-plated banana plugs in December 2022.

The new banana plug combines the advantages of both gold-plated and silver-plated plugs, which have never been available before, with durability.

The development of “SGBN” started two years ago with the cooperation of a plating factory to find a new plating combination suitable for speaker terminal connection plugs, while maintaining the simple, well-honed design, meticulous detailing, and non-magnetic phosphor bronze material. The development of “SGBN” started two years ago in cooperation with a plating factory to find a new plating combination suitable for speaker terminal connection plugs. Based on thick-wall 24K gold plating, we produced more than 10 prototypes with different combinations of plating materials and thicknesses of each plating. After repeated comparative listening tests, we selected pure silver + thick-wall 24K gold plating, which gave the best results in terms of both sound quality and durability, and exquisitely tuned it by applying silver plating on the base to extend the high frequency range, while taking advantage of the long-term stability and the good phase characteristics of the mid-range range that gold plating gives. We have upgraded the product.

For the tip diameter, the size was selected based on the standard WBT speaker terminals. Of course, we have also verified it with speaker terminals other than WBT, and it can be adapted to general banana plug receptacle terminals as well. In order to securely clamp the cable conductor, a highly rigid stainless steel set screw with a diameter of 5 mm is used in relation to the cable insertion diameter (4 mm). This ensures a perfect connection by maximizing the contact area without allowing the twisted wire portion of the cable conductor to escape.

The main body is carefully buffed and polished one by one by hand to a mirror finish. The perfectly polished body is plated twice with sterling silver and thick-wall 24K gold plating, which together with the blue screws give the “SGBN” a high-grade, elegant appearance.

Features

Materials and Structure

Smooth and tight. SGBN” aimed to complete this theme with only the characteristics of the material. Phosphor bronze was used to achieve a secure hold with the fewest number of parts. Phosphor bronze is widely used for contacts, which are the key components of electrical products, because of its excellent springiness and electrical characteristics.

In planning SGBN, the most careful attention was paid to the contact area around the tip. In order to secure the maximum contact area, the tip is divided into four sections with cross slits, and the slits are designed to fit closely together when inserted. The tip length is designed to perfectly match WBT’s speaker terminals. We created more than a dozen samples in increments of 30μm from the standard value of 3.8mm, and selected the size and shape that could be said to be the smoothest and tightest. In addition, we have also tested speaker terminals other than those made by WBT, and they can be used with any type of banana plug receptacle terminals.

The cable insertion part, which is set for a maximum cable diameter of 4 mm (5.5 sq.), is tapered to facilitate insertion of twisted wires into the main body.

Dual screw clamp method is used for connection. The cable and main body are securely contacted and fixed with two screws. Furthermore, the screws used to secure the cable are also carefully designed. A highly rigid stainless steel set screw with a diameter of 5mm is used for the 4mm-diameter cable penetration area. This eliminates the gap between the main body and the screw part and secures the maximum contact area.

Machining

The “SGBN” is the result of the outstanding precision of cutting: an 8 mm phosphor bronze round bar is machined to a high degree of accuracy by a highly programmed CNC machining process. The body is mechanically barrel polished, then buffed and polished one by one by hand to a smooth mirror finish.

Plating

The mirror-finished body is plated with sterling silver as the base coat and then finished with thick-walled 24K gold plating.

In general, gold plating has a straightforward characteristic with no habit from low to mid-high frequencies, but the extension of the high frequency range may seem a little lacking.” SGBN” is exquisitely tuned by applying silver plating to the base to extend the high-frequency range, while taking advantage of the long-term stability and the uniquely good phase characteristics of the mid-range range that gold plating provides.

In order to confirm the long-term stability of the new plating combination, it has been tested for more than 18 months of continuous use to ensure its reliability. While most gold-plated terminals use magnetic electro-nickel plating as an undercoat to prevent erosion, the gold plating on Oyaide products eliminates electro-nickel, thereby preventing sound quality degradation.

Mirror finish and direct plating. It is simple, which is why it must be crafted. Oyaide’s philosophy and craftsmanship are condensed here as well. Proud to be “Made in Japan SGBN” is a proof of highly polished Japanese craftsmanship.