Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion.
I just checked my speaker connections. All using bananas, all nice and tight.
The number of times I’ve had spades get loose instead though.....
Point is, and it really is kind of a tongue in cheek thing, bananas beat spades for long term reliability in almost all setups. If you have to use a Cardas or Mundorf speaker terminal to ensure your spades stay tight it kind of proves my point.
Anything I diy gets 5 way posts for being 'enough for any reasonable situation posed'...Bananas if that given line is meant to stay that way semi-permanently... If it's 'temp', I goes naked; Longer than 'temp', but meant to stay put, I'll tin the nudity....put a spade on it if it's on/off alot.... Banana fan for awhile now, beats screwing around, literally... ...and certainly more to access excess upon....*L* Do whatcha' do.... |
Vice-grips on your binding posts? Really? Must do wonders for resale. AudioQuest makes a great hand wrench that fits both terminal sizes. For my speaker cable, prefer bananas on the amplifier end as I need to swap + and - for a phase reversal. Spades on the speaker end is all Wilson will accept. However, the silver spades on the big Wireworld Platinum cable are soft and sometimes break off when moving the speakers around. Keep a bag of replacements. Oh the problems of affluence. |
@coppy777 , I just did a quick google on those and found a picture on AA. Unfortunately, my B&W binding posts do not have hex heads, they are round heads with I guess what would be referred to as knurls on them. I am a retired mechanic, so I have an excess of sockets and wrenches, and if they did have hex heads that would make my life a lot easier; as it is I use a pair of small channel locks to give them a tweak with after I hand tighten them. I assume that B&W did not use hex heads because they felt that folks would be smoking them down and stripping them out. |
