What style of termination has the least effect on music quality without regard to convienience or inconvienience, bare wire,banana jacks or spades? Thanks,Johnny7
Kimber Kable's "Post Master" spades are excellent, as are the WBT locking bananas. If your local dealer can't help you, the contact Kimber directly for both of these items. (See www.kimber.com)
Spades generally give you the most contact surface area and therefore are considered the best. I wouldn't recommend bare wire due to wire degredation and the potential for poor connections. Silver plated will give the best connection (if properly cleaned), followed by gold. Copper can give equal connections, but oxidizes, so it is rarely used. Kimber and Sonic Frontiers Parts Supply can provide you with good quality connectors.
Any mechanical connection, spade or otherwise, will degrade the signal to some degree. However, this is much more advisable than losing resolution due to oxidation of your high-priced wire. Least trouble overall, I'd have to say a properly soldered spade connection.
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