Screw on banana/spade connectors


Looking at some Canare 4S11 Star quad cable crimped with WBT Gold plated crimp sleeve ferrules that accept screw down banana or spades. Any concern with signal loss on that type of connection?

4S11 good choice?
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uncledemp330 posts
02-25-2020 5:56pm

Millercarbon hath spoken.
So true! We are lucky to have someone who knows everything in this forum! Conversation over.
Just normal u shaped spade connectors.

See this is where your loosing me. A spade is flat no U with a round wire receiver, normally insulated, normally CRIMPED..
A  "U" sounds like a Y connector to me. A Y the tail on the Y is the wire receiver and can be soldered, crimped and soldered or securement screws.  I've just never seen a spade used for a speaker terminal. Only as a speaker driver connection. 
.125 -.250  wide, about .60" thick for 10 amp (blue) .80" for 15 amp (Yellow)..
A spade has a male and a female. A Y is locked down via a locking nut
and normally the most commonly used feature on a FIVE (5) way binding post..(except banana).It's also a very GOOD way to mechanically connect and keep it tight.. TORQUE IT..A Y is an Eye term with the top cut out.  Hee hee. Yup Yup
I'm kinda thick sometime that way.. But ay, I haven't see a lot of things. LOL. Just an ol wore out mechanic..

So is it still a spade? or a Y, just wondering? Y is very common..

Regards
You know I just looked. The Europeans are calling a Y (US electrical term) connector a spade, this may be what I'm missing. I might  be incorrect, I see the term interchange between the two different connections..I don't know..Why. Open Eye or Y is the common US nomenclature. 

Regards