Spades or bananas

They both deliver about the same - sometimes bananas tend to fall out of the connection a bit easier than spades do from being tightened onto the binding posts.

They both deliver about the same - sometimes bananas tend to fall out of the connection a bit easier than spades do from being tightened onto the binding posts.

I seriously doubt that I could hear a difference between the two-- even if it were possible to A/B this. But I use and prefer spades. Cheers. Craig

I did my best once to A/B spades vs bananas.Not the best scientific 'study' by a long shot.
No difference according to my 'findings'.I gave up after I began to feel kinda silly about the whole thing.
Im using MIT T-2 biwires W/bananas all the way around.

I agree with the above posts that there is no difference between the two so long as both provide a "snug" connection.

Also, no connector/bare wire is the best. However, be careful if you are using solid core cable, not to crush the cable in the binding post. And a single point of contact is desirable, especially on the hot.

Of course silver cable needs no tinning. With copper, sometimes yes and sometimes no. Depending on the composition (solid core don't tin) and your willingness to clean the wire you may not have to tin the wire which is better; there is no heat or change in composition to affect the character of the cable. Furthermore if you have to, I'm not so sure about using solder with silver in it (lead is worse) to tin the wire as the silver content may separate and/or color the sound of copper cables.