The "gold" plugs you find at the big box stores are more "goldeny"
than anything else. I'm not convinced that there's any gold in them
at all.

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
JR North hath wroth:


Use only the gold terminals, spltters and crimp barrels, and high
quality coax cable.


Very bad idea.

Gold is great for corrosive or marine atmospheres. If you live in a
salt fog, then gold connectors are the way to go.

However, there are problems. You must use gold on both the plug and
receptacle. Mixing a gold connector with a tin, nickel, cadmium, or
solder plate, connector will result in enough electrolysis to trash
the non-gold side in short order. If you're supplying gold plugs, but
the customer has a device with non-gold receptacles, there may be
problems.