Anyone went back to using bare wires on speakers?

Tin the ends and that will avoid most of the oxidation, otherwise it is the way to go.

Used spades for a short while and figured that it's just a waste of money to have speaker wire terminated.
I might implement adding speakon connectors and plugs once I feel that I'll need to plug and unplug speakers often. That's the only valuable plug-connector to have between amp and speakers.

Buconero, that's a great idea. In fact, I'm going to tin the ends of my cables with WBT 4% silver solder right now.
Thanks for that tid bit.

I use bare wire on both the amp and speaker ends. I noticed a small improvement in SQ when I removed the spades.

I could be crazy.

Bryon

As long as you're using quality termination(no brass), the difference shouldn't be substantial.