Matthew, I must defer to your professional skills. B&W and their knurls are a bit of a mystery though. Years ago I had some Nautilus 800s and have no idea anymore how the speaker cables attached.
Enjoy the music.
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.
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@coppy777 , here is a picture of kind of what mine look like. I did the search for that AQ wrench you mentioned because I was thinking that maybe it was machined to match those (what I am referring to as) knurls that B&W used on my binding posts. I guess I could replace them with better posts (like maybe Cardas?) but one of my fatal flaws is probably laziness, and once I have the spades attached and satisfactorily torqued, it's kind of like "out of site/out of mind." As I typed earlier, however, on the rare occsions that I do have to mess with them, I always wish that they did have hex heads. I guess I could by a set of eight (I am biwired) Cardas(?) posts with hex-heads, and next time I have to remove the speaker wire spades I guess I could then change them . . . I guess I could do that. . . .
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As mentioned, my Wilsons, with their big pretty hex heads, don’t accept banana connections. Their latest model terminations now do. And they sell them as expensive replacements. Supposedly sound somewhat better. Even my dealer thinks I probably have better things to do with that amount of money. So not in the cards for me either, though tempting. Wrench on my friend. Enjoy. |
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