Need help re Quad 909 Binding Posts

The plugs are out, so in theory the binding posts will take banana plugs. But I am finding that Vampire's SB bananas, which lock on to my Premier 11A binding posts just fine, do not lock on to the 909 very well. Maybe I need to try the BFA style or Nordost Z or Audioquest plugs.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Adamsmo,

The binding post may have a pin in the center that prevents normal bananas from being used. The BFA style bananas should work just fine.

For a good example of what the BFA connectors look like, take a look at this link to 6moons review of the White Lightning Moonshine speaker cables:

http://6moons.com/audioreviews/whitelightning/moonshine.html

In the review there is a e-mail address of a vendor that sells the Multi-Contact USA BFA style banana. They are significantly less expensive from Multi-Contact USA than they are from Nordost. They look like the same connector to me.

Enjoy,

TIC

Thanks again. btw, I tried Roc-doc's approach with a couple of spades, and it seemed to work, so I may remove the Vampire SB bananas and go with the spades. I use Vampire ST III cables, which are 8 gauge, and some BFA plugs, e.g., at least one of the Audioquests, won't take more than 10 gauge.

You can open up the Quad 909 and unsolder these strange binding posts and install conventional/cardas binding posts to take spades. I did this in my own unit, and it took one hour. It does make me wonder regarding differences in expensive/exotic speaker cables when internally the output board to binding post wires are some inferior grade wire albeit a short run.