bananas vs spades as terminals for speaker cables


Interested in opinions on bananas vs spades at the speaker and amp ends of speaker cables. Mine are biwired cables.
dkasper

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I think they are all, "set and forget" unless the gear is getting moved more than a couple inches. then spades arebest.

I've heard no diffs in sound quality from one to another. I prefer Bananas. Far easier to deal with and hook up to nearly anything, especially on cramped rear panels like with processors and receivers.

With spades you have to concern yourself with thier spread or size and the binding posts size too. What sort of connectig nut, thumb screws, etc.

I especially like the Z bananas from SR. They fit better than the non expansion solid types.

the note above on using Pro gold too is a good one.... or any contact enhancer for that matter.