Speaker Cable Banana Plug Breakage
It really is the easiest thing, to terminate cables. You seem to have convinced yourself that you can't do it.. If you can sculpt, or stretch a canvas, you can certainly do this yourself. You don't even have to solder, crimp connections can also be very good. You would need to buy a good pair of crimping pliers, of course. Soldering is very easy as well and solder and a soldering iron can be had cheaply. For approximately half of the mental energy you seem to have spent worrying about this, you could fix this yourself. Do it! |
The thin gold plated pieces that splay apart on the end of my banana plug have broken off and now, I'm having some conductivity issues. This is one reason I use bare wire at the terminal connection point. Theoretically better because less is more in this case. I think the only reason to use some kind of terminator is in cases where you would frequently take on and off the speaker wire, like at an audio dealer. |
As gdhal says, bare wire is a completely valid solution to connect your cables as well. However, based on you posts, I’m guessing that there’s no way you’d go for that because that’s not how they come from the manufacturer. With that said, might I recommend that you change all the bananas to the newer BFA banana design? It’s far superior to the old school banana connector. It provides a much larger, stronger contact area and, because of this, I’ve found it to be even better than bare wire. Here's an inexpensive example and it has a screw on connection system, so you wouldn't need to crimp or solder: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F201718034056 These are what I use, but you'd need to crimp or solder them: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F160535708043 |
