Shorting the speaker wires

Yeah,I've done that on my Mark Levinson 27.5 amp,years ago.
I was using the Monster bananas and speaker cables.The bananas accidentally touched because the speaker cable was so heavy gauge that caused them to slip.Nothing happened to the amp ,there is a protection circuitry that kicked in and saved the amp,but since then I covered the bananas with shrink tube socks.
Hope your amp is fine.
George

Some amps are tolerent of shorting, and many are not.

Some amps also are not tolerent of having no load on the speaker terminals at all.

I have also seen a friend damage a speaker by hot swapping a RCA cable. The connection thump caused an arc in his Quads.

John C.

My CarverPro ZR1600 amps have Neutronic output terminals, which I have never used. I use the binding posts with bare wire terminations (or should I say non-terminations). The Neutronic connectors are a twist-lock design, with a contact wiping action when you mate them, and where there is no exposure of the metalic terminations. They are widely used for pro audio.

However, when I installed in-wall wires for a second system I used Neutronic connectors, jacks mounted in the wall and plugs on the speaker wires. I am impressed with these devices.

Well it's August 10th and the electronic repair store says they need more parts and have them on order.

Can someone suggest a thin, flexible, good value speaker wire.

Thank you.

08-10-08: Mendota9811
Can someone suggest a thin, flexible, good value speaker wire.

What do you have now? I take it that the thickness and inflexibility of the speaker cable you tripped on contributed to the spark-shooting damage you incurred?

What cable was that? For more flexible and easier to handle, there's Kimber 4TC or 8TC. Very neutral, fast, transparent, and harmonically right when broken in. Matches well with a wide variety of components.

For way thinner and more flexible, there's Crystal Cable, but at a much higher price.

There are also very light, thin, foil ribbon cables, but they might break when you trip on them, which could be as expensive as what you're facing.

I had a spark-shooting incident once too. Fortunately it only blew an internal protection fuse in my amp, so it was a same day cheap 'n' easy fix. Sorry. I guess that wouldn't make you feel any better.