If you like the sound of your new cables you may want to consider leaving them as is with the bare wire connection. I added crimp on Kimber Bananna's to my Kimber 4VS cables and found that I preferred the sound of the bare wire connection. It was a subtle difference, but clearer sounding especialy at very low and very high volumes. Following this I tried tinning the bare ends with silver solder. I still prefer the bare wire sound. The only drawback to this connection is that logicaly the ends should be cleaned periodicaly. I have read about contact cleaners on this sight but could not locate the threads this morning. With my cable and in my system bare wire is the best sounding connection. Some connectors may improve the sound of some systems only because they add, change or take away information from the signal path (like a tone control). And now that I think about it "some" cables may have been designed to work with this signal altering type of connector. How about this? When in doubt, try everything.
Can I connect speaker wire this way...?
I want to try a set of speaker wire that I have but it has bananna's on the amp end and the amp does not except them. For a trial period, can I remove the bananna plugs and use just bare wire and screw the binding post down on them? I would later add spades if I wanted to use them.