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Correct way to attach speaker wires... Wait, what!!!

Okay this is going to sound ridiculous but I've always wondered if I'm connecting the wires in the proper way to the binding posts. I just picked up a Red Dragon S500 power amp and I figured I finally should ask the question. It has the screw down type of posts. Here is a link to the pic on their website. The wires I have are Mapleshade Clearview Golden Helix which terminate in a stiff single 3/4" wire. Any help for a dumb question would be greatly appreciated!
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czarivey
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@grannyring , I agree to bare wire, only what to do with that 3/4" thick sausage LOL? I doubt that it's going to be cooperative to the screw-in posts of amp or any posts technically. Need to check if Mapleshade doodz took such thickie from near-by power transformer...

soldering is out of question simply because you will rather need an electrode welder instead of soldering iron.


czarivey
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I use Kimber 4TC bare wire I purchased as left-over for $50 which gave me 2 runs of approximately 5.5 feet.

No issues with corrosion as I clean somewhat once per season frequency 4...5 times per year.

czarivey
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randy-111,326 posts08-15-2017 3:01pmvinegar works - but why not just protect the connection so you don't have to clean it??
food vinegar won't work. cleaner vinegar from home depot or similar retailers will. 

unterminated wires work very well as one reason and another reason that i can shift manual tranny better than any today's automatic tranny and, finally, each and everyone prefers to mustarbate one's own way.
czarivey
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most of food vinegar isn't concentrated enough to work on corrosion and the price is different as well.
the only subject i am good at is math. all other ones had inferior grades or little to no interest including chemistry. 

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