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Are Terminals Necessary?

Howdy,
At the risk of sounding the simp, I'm wondering: are terminations at speaker cable ends really necessary? If I understand it, isn't the object to impose as few interferences between the source and the sound as possible? So do spades, bananas, etc. serve to improve sound or are they something else? This may sound incredibly obvious to many but I'm new to all this so I'd appreciate what ya'll got to say. Thanks and I really dig this site. Jerry
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meisterkleef
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I use bare wire at the amps and dual-bananas at the speakers
for the exact reason Unsound mentions: binding posts on the
amps are spaced wide apart making a short across the terminals
nearly impossible. Otherwise I'd use dual-bananas at the amp
side as well. I don't know why but I really like dual-bananas.
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