Connecting Amp to speakers

I use spades on the amp (tightened with a nut driver) and locking bananas on the speakers.

I had my monblocks fitted with SpeakONs (as mentioned by Erik) and love them. Benchmark Systems says they provide the lowest measurable distortion of connectors they tried; they are easy to connect and disconnect; they are impossible to short out; and they are inexpensive and plain looking. This list includes many reasons why they never will be adopted by high-end audiophiles. They are just too simple, effective, homely, and inexpensive to be audio jewelry.

Good question. For some reason I always looked at banana suspiciously. So I only used them once. I always use spades… but as @erik_squires said, he has never had a set of banana fall out… I have spades fall out with some frequency.

I’ve found that binding posts on speakers come in two widths. I think spades make better contact than bananas, but when I changed to my latest set of speakers, the spades were too wide. Luckily there are spades with a variable size...

The correct answer is:  spade, bare wire, pin (the small cross drilled hole in the shaft takes a solid pin attached to the wire), banana jack, and double banana jack.