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Terminations

Just curious to find out what the consensus is on speaker cable termination. I have some Audioquest Type 4+ that I'm going to be using. My thought was to use gold bananas on the amp end and leave the bare wire on the speaker end. However, I'm concerned with oxidation there. I have also considered spades on that end or just soldercoating the wire. At any rate, what sonic effects/differences have you noticed with these different terminations - bare wire, solder coated, spades and bananas?

Chris
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kotta
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In my opinion, bare wire sounds the best. If you're con-
cerned about strands of wire coming apart, apply silver
solder ay the very end of the wire. Make the point of con-
tact on bare wire.(Especially easy on the spk. end.)If you're spks. are bi-wireable, consider replacing stock
jumpers with the same wire you used from your amp to spk.
This should be quite easy considering you're only dealing
with two identical solid guage wires for the +/-. If you're
concerned about oxidation, buy wire a little longer and re-
terminate yearly.
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