bananas vs spades as terminals for speaker cables

This topic also has been debated to dead. Search is your friend, my friend.

Here are some opinions for you to read :

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1138398518&read&keyw&zzbananas=vs=spades

Overall I think bananas are much easier to work with. With spades I had trouble getting the right amount of tension on the binding posts. To loose is no good obviously but I was afraid I would overtighten them and break something.

With bananas you just shove it in and forget about it. Only disadvantage is that they stick out much farther than spades.

I can recommend the Nakamichi bananas if you are building your own cables. They work well and are inexpensive. My only complaint with them is that you need to use a small slotted screwdriver to tighten them, which tears up my hands after a while (a hex head would be SO much better).

Mark