Recommendations for banana plugs

Cardas bananas.

Spades are better...better connection. Nordost/ cardas bananas fine and dandy. Don' think you can go wrong here.

i also think spades do a better job, but cardas banannas are where its at

Reterminate with spades then use the Monster expanding banana plugs (Xterminators) which lock on to spades. Spades are waaaay preferable, and using this method you can have both spades and bananas.

The Nordost Z-plug is a very fine connector. I like it better than spades because it does not require tightening of the binding nut and it offers a very large contact area.

For all, do not confuse the Nordost Z-plug with and ordinary banana. An ordinary banana has limited surface contact area. The Z-plug has contact over the complete other surface as it is made of "spring" metal and expands in all directions to make complete contact with the inner surface of the binding post.

Unlike spades, it does not require periodic tightening of the binding post.

Enjoy,

TIC