Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion.

Now I guess I am going to have to go back and check my spades.

(I am bi-wired, so at the amp end I actually do have a pair of bananas and a pair of spades.)

But I cannot ever recollect any of my spades coming loose.  I tighten them as tight as I can get them by hand and then give them a tiny tweak with a pair of pliers.  I wish they had a hex head, but I guess the reason that they don't is because people would be going ballistic and over-torquing and stripping?

Cardas not only makes absolutely excellent connectors, they are super nice people to deal with.  I absolutely support their work.  Still, you shouldn't need a super fancy Cardas spade connector to get reliable. 

I mean, sure, there are amps with Cardas or Mundorf or some other high end socket for spades, and they're great at their cost.  For the rest of us though, da banana is da bomb-a.

except da bomb sounds worse than a gas tight low mass spade with a quality binding post, better yet ring terminals….

I like bananas and rice krispies for breakfast!!!!