Do Banana Plug Adaptors Degrade SQ?

I have the audioquest wel speaker wire and I have bananas.  I doubt they would have bananas on their top of the line if they sounded audibly worse.

Bananas into 5way posts have always seemed a 'gold standard' for 'better' equipment, speakers.....

A better move would be optical, to duck the whole issue of cables and IC's, and how they can 'improve' or ruin response..

...although I can also already hear the claims of 'our optics are better than X, Q, or whoever's fibre IC....

So maybe we're better off just 'standing still'...*L*

I doubt either either Will Occur.....but, on the other hand, Could....

Of course, this is 'digital realm' stuff....

Anything in a signal path changes it.

Not for me when I had 3 alternate amps going: 3 sets of color coded speaker wires, all with separate WBT Banana Plugs (you manually tighten them when you insert them). I put a 6 ft pigtail with female from the speakers that I could reach without bending! A couple years of comparative listening, myself and with friends.

http://www.wbtusa.com/pages/0645m.html

In the past I used some Radio Shack self-tightening type (fixed pair which maintains spacing). The knurled ends are for tightening the speaker wire, once, then it’s simply push in/pull out. This type, the speaker wire connection  to the plug can mysteriously loosen, the WBT uses a pair of allen key set screws, the wire connection never loosened. They are well worth the price.

https://www.radioshack.com/products/gp-dual-banana?variant=20332018373&gclid=CjwKCAjw7diEBhB-Eiw...

This is when EVERYONE picked LP over CD; R2R tape over LP; Tubes over SS. I had a Pair of Fisher 80z Tube Mono Blocks (30 wpc); Fisher 500C Tube Receiver (30 wpc); McIntosh SS MC2250 (250 wpc).

You made me think, I still have those cables, Just for fun I’m gonna compare my Fisher 80z Tube Mono Blocks with my ’new to me’ Luxman SQ-N150 10 wpc Integrated Tube Amp that arrived yesterday. I listened with a friend for 3 hrs last night, that little Luxman is amazing. I’ve never used less than 30 wpc here. I knew it was small, but when you take it out of the box, it’s small (but heavy). Beautifully built (I didn’t look inside).