McIntosh MC300 speaker wire hookup ????

Your way works fine. Radio Shack has spade lugs of various sizes. Beware of those that want to sell you speaker wire for hundreds of dollars!!
I use 12 guage with my Mac. Got it at Home Depot for peanuts!! (see www.roger-russell.com for the speaker wire "test")

ive owned 4 mc300's & im having a hard time envisioning how you wraped bare wire around the set screws in the terminals.

remove the set screws on the taps with the ohmage you need then you can use banana plugs instead of bare wire,god that had to be tricky to get the wires to stay on the terminal set screws.

mike.