Spades vs. Banana plugs ??

Good quality spades for best sound. 
 

Bananas for convenience but poor sound. 
 

The tight screw down compression of a spade is always better than loose banana slip in connection. 
 

Just don’t be a dummy and let the spades short/touch. 

@sudnh 

So you learned this by experimentation? Please tell us the details.
 

I have always thought that spades should sound the best… but after hundreds of hours of experimenting with interconnects, and a hundred hours with speaker cables etc. it has just been easier to choose spades on the logic and not actually do the work comparing them. I’d love to hear the details.

@ghdprentice

I’ve done many years of DIY using high end cables and connectors and had spades and bananas. Left bananas connectors long ago due to poorer sound quality.

Bananas, particularly the ones that spin are, for sound quality, not great and the connection degrades faster over time due to the low compression slip in fit.

Perfectly fine for mid fi audio tho where uncompromised SQ is not a goal  

Bananas,  My Naim Supernait 3 only except Bananas.  

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My Furetech spades haven't ever came  loose on wbt binding post although I broke one wbt post over tightening it. The trick is to get its tightness just right. You have to turn the spade along with the post.  Also I installed the wbt's myself farther apart than most speakers would come from the factory leaving plenty of room for them not to spin around and touch.  Next time I might go with bananas though