First, I will be curious to know what it means "gold." This must be the color, because at that price and given the appearance of the product, there is probably no precious metal trace in this adapter. Then, in my installation, home theater projector buggait regularly with this adapter. I can not be 100% sure that this adapter is the cause, but when I redid another facility with a new cable without this adapter, there was no problem. So I have a big doubt about this.