Neutrik XLRs are silver plated.
In my experience, RJ45s are not suprermely reliable
Ethernet is terminated with 110Ω so the current is not single-digit mA.
Tin on tin is not unreliable, because the material is soft a new clean surface is made every time it is plugged in.

 

Neutrik XLRs are silver plated.
In my experience, RJ45s are not suprermely reliable
Ethernet is terminated with 110Ω so the current is not single-digit mA.
Tin on tin is not unreliable, because the material is soft a new clean surface is made every time it is plugged in.

Western Electric figured this all out in 1935 and invented Western Electric #1 alloy composed of 69% gold, 25% silver and 6% platinum. This allowed them to save money over using pure gold. They had already filed three patents in 1930 over the use of gold crosspoint contacts to render these connections insensitive to oxide contamination (you could have looked those up as well). This was back when the company was the sole manufacturing arm of the public telephone monopoly referred to as "Ma Bell". We still use this concept today in computer keyboards, for example see https://telcontar.net/KBK/Cherry/contacts .

Please at least do the "minimum recommended amount" of internet research next time before shooting off your mouth and causing yourself further embarrassment.

 

I am certain that the TRS connectors in this discussion are not nearly as high a quality as any current XLR connector. And for certain there is not one speck of corrosion resistant alloy on the connector.

 

Western Electric figured this all out in 1935 and invented Western Electric #1 alloy composed of 69% gold, 25% silver and 6% platinum. This allowed them to save money over using pure gold. They had already filed three patents in 1930 over the use of gold crosspoint contacts to render these connections insensitive to oxide contamination (you could have looked those up as well). This was back when the company was the sole manufacturing arm of the public telephone monopoly referred to as "Ma Bell". We still use this concept today in computer keyboards, for example see https://telcontar.net/KBK/Cherry/contacts .

Please at least do the "minimum recommended amount" of internet research next time before shooting off your mouth and causing yourself further embarrassment.

I knew Ethernet had been around a while but I didn't know Western Electric figured it out in 1935.
https://www.neutrik.com/en/product/nc3mxx see "Plating 2um Ag"
Who's embarrased now? Not me. My facts were correct.

 

I knew Ethernet had been around a while but I didn't know Western Electric figured it out in 1935.
https://www.neutrik.com/en/product/nc3mxx see "Plating 2um Ag"
Who's embarrased now? Not me. My facts were correct.

The reference was related to the creeation of the alloy, NOT the cimplementation of the ethernet. I found that to be obvious as soonas I read it.