A poor connection? I think that's a bit of an overstatement. The quote came from Gutwire. Here's another one from their site...
GutWire Audio Cables was founded on one simple principle: Our products retrieve what is on the recording; no adding or subtracting from the signal. We firmly believe in the superior sound of cold-welding (a.k.a. crimping) in the termination process. During our research process, 10 out of 10 times, we found our listening panel voting unanimously toward cold-welding terminated cables. Cables that are terminated with cold welding offer the following benefits: well-defined soundstage, maximum dynamics, real-life midrange and amazing 3D imaging…just to name a few.
This is not an isolated position Gutwire takes with regards to crimping. Atlas also crimps their ICs. There are other manufacturers as well. I received this email from John, the head person at Atlas Cables, a couple of weeks ago. It was in response to a question about why their xlr connector is superior.
Dear Chris,
The XLR plug simply uses silver plated OCC pins. Nowadays these are crimped
and not soldered in common with our policy of removing the solder joint in
all our products, thereby removing an interface (barrier) of differing
material resistance characteristics from the signal path. The body is in
aluminium as opposed to the more common nickel plated brass. The method for
gripping the cable is via a compression gland, but the degree of compression
is small since the plug is designed to fit Atlas 8.5mm cables.
Kind regards,
John
From Atlas' web site...
Most RCA plugs grip the cable with a clamp or grub screw. These compress the cable, causing reflections which distort the signal. Our patented RCA plugs do not compress the cable, maintaining the correct impedance.
That said, Van den Hul cables sound good and they solder everything. My point is, go with what sounds best and try not to sweat the technical information. None of it means a hill of Beans if the cables don't sound right.
And FWIW, I listen to the Gutwire speaker cables daily. They are fantastic.
Chris