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Mini-Rant: Human Fingers

I don't have a huge range of experience in this matter but in my limited experience the experience is universal:

My fingers are too large to comfortably use most speaker binding posts easily. It is always tight and tedious. Yes, my hands are big but not unusually so. No, I'm not a clumsy oaf. Quite experienced doing small delicate work in fact. This experience has bridged hi-fi to mid-fi to low-fi.

I can understand this with small or bookshelf sized speakers. But my experience is with tower speakers. I just wonder if there is a reason for this? 

My experience is similar with components. Even my amp which is a huge 100 pound deal with virtually nothing on the back but two balanced inputs and 4 binding posts. The binding positive and negative posts are very close together and hard to tighten for that reason.

Anyway, rant over. Just wondering if there is a reason for not putting enough space between binding posts to get human fingers all the way around them? 
n80
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tomic601
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the Cardas design is unique and elegantly effective, but converting your gear to them most likely difficult, certainly expensive.

gas tight spades far superior to bananas IMO
a low mass spade that can deform is also good, consider the AQ or the excellent Anticable copper


wolf_garcia
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Note that heavy speaker cables can put some stress on bananas, and nobody needs a stressed banana.
n80 OP
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@jetter Here is a picture of the binding posts on my Aerial Acoustics:

https://images.nikonians.org/galleries/data/3564/IMG_1124.JPG

As you can see they are 1/2 hex nuts with openings for banana clips. As you can also see there is very little room for everything in there.

And for what its worth I do not like the terminal ends of these Transparent cables. Each of the four ends needs to be longer. Of course if I cut the spades off and put bananas on they will be another 1/4 inch shorter.

@blindjim I’ve got all the tools. I’ve done a little electrical work (house, car, tractor). Having said that, I seem to have a mental inability to really comprehend electricity. Everything I do is by cookbook. I can follow the directions and do the work but I don’t understand it all.

@wolf_garcia They have a pill for that. ;-)
jetter
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n80 thanks for the picture, now I got you on the hex nuts and as an aside I guess live a sheltered audio life and cannot believe how thick your speaker cables are to the connectors.  Mine are that thick except about 6 or 8 inches from the connector they taper down to be protective but with a much thinner and flexible insulation.
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onhwy61
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Unless someone is in some way physically disabled, I just can't take the "problem" seriously.  Is this an elaborate joke?
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