Duelund DCA16GA

I ordered the additional 12 awg Duelund wire for a pair of bi-wire speaker cables yesterday.  I was planning to use the KLEI bananas for terminations but checked my supply and found I already have plenty of new spades so will use those instead of buying additional banana connectors.

@grannyring do you have any suggestions for use with the 12 awg Duelund wire, between the following spade connectors?  Based on the picture of your BBQ speaker cables, it appears you are using something similar to the Vampire spades or maybe the Audioquest 1056G lug spades.  Below is what I have in stock.
- Cardas 1/4" spade, bare copper (GRS C)
- Vampire  1/4" SPD Spade Lug 10/12awg copper with direct gold plating
- Furutech  FP-203(G) 5/16" 24K Gold-Plated Alpha pure copper

@mitch2 

All those will work fine for sure.  I like the Furutech the most and they sound great.  

@jaybe PartsConnexion is certainly going strong.  They are offering a price reduction on the Duelund wire currently...at least they were yesterday when I bought some.  They also have a quite favorable price on the KLEI banana connectors, if you were thinking about using those.

@grannyring I agree with you about how good the Furutech spades sound and on almost all my terminations I have used either the FP-203 (crimp or solder connection) that I have available for this project or the FP-201 (bigger and with set screws).  Both of these spades are pure Alpha copper with gold (my choice) or rhodium plating.  I have previously used my hydraulic crimp tool with the FP-203 spades but this time I think I will lightly crimp with a hand tool and then solder.  The solder should mix with the tin plating and create a more homogeneous connection.