I have always been a bare wire advocate, but am getting tired of re-dressing the ends of my cables when they become damaged from being taken on and off when auditioning other wire and during other general experimentation (which includes cleaning the connections every 6-8 weeks or so). I am actually considering quality (though low mass) bananas if I go with Mapleshade speaker cable and hope that I don't regret it. Bananas so that I can easily switch from a simple tube amp (with a volume pot) to a SS amp when we just want background music and when I am burning in other gear and want to leave the system on 7/24.
Modification of speaker cables
I have a set of MIT's 750 biwire speaker cables. They are terminated with spades. I have just purchased a new amp that has binding posts that are larger than the spades will fit. Will there be any negatives to removing the spades and going with the bare wire? (other than resale value)