Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion.


I just checked my speaker connections. All using bananas, all nice and tight.

The number of times I’ve had spades get loose instead though.....

Point is, and it really is kind of a tongue in cheek thing, bananas beat spades for long term reliability in almost all setups.  If you have to use a Cardas or Mundorf speaker terminal to ensure your spades stay tight it kind of proves my point.

erik_squires

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There are such things as SOCKETS to TIGHTEN stuff. 

On my FIRST DIY speaker, I simply used copper screws and nuts. As with EVERY bolt on your car, proper tightened with a socket and a wrench, they never come loose, and provide gigantic contact area. 

SO, we we can twist off that childish hand know, figure out what thread size we need, we can then just order us nice nuts. For purist who buy pixel dust by the pound, we could even do soft copper or aluminum (nah, gold) WASHER (to be confirm to the uneven contact surface of the spade; same reason your oil drain plug or banjo bolt on the car have a soft metal washer) and put a stainless nut on.

Since I abstain pixel dust, and constantly plug in/out/move/change my system, I just suffer the terrible sound those bananas provide.