@pinwa "Someday I hope you and @roadcykler and all the other deniers actually get to hear high end systems that permit you to do A/B listening tests of different components that simply can’t possibly make a difference but do. Hearing is believing."
I’ve come across MANY many people in the audio hobby that can’t tell the difference between amps and between dacs. To believe these people can tell the difference if they just give cables a try is just not gonna happen.
" I agree it is a little unusual to specify spades for the speakers"
If you have kids, they can easily break off the banana plugs when inside the speaker if they just step on it. I’ve had it happened before. Spade would be almost impossible to break in this situation.
One final note I'd like to add about cable. The cable deniers also never care for the quality of the terminal connectors of cable. Which IMO is silly thinking.