I prefer bananas, but never feel like they make the connection that spades do For the same reasons like others have stated. I only buy used equipment so when I got my transparent cable, most of what I found were spade to spade My older Wilson speakers do not accept bananas either To the point that others have made about shorting out your amp, I always get super nervous connecting my speaker cables and never do it with the amp on It seems that Cardas is the gold standard for terminals. I wonder why they make them positioned so close together. Why not have the physical apparatus 2 inches wide with more than enough space for either spade to do a complete rotation without risk of making contact?
