Whoever said to use bare wire with the ends tinned together is one of the first methods I used. That said, four plus decades later I've tried everything from inexpensive solid copper nickel plated spades purchased at the hardware store to WBT expanding bananas. My preferred lately but not married to them are a solid copper banana designed like the nickel bananas preferred by Linn, Naim and many British companies. Can I hear a difference between any of them? Not really. I even experimented with different bananas with screw down connections to the wire on Tara Labs cable from three bucks a piece to Fifty dollars. The Monoprice Affinity Series 24k Gold Speaker Banana Plugs that Brent Butterworth recommends I think are a best buy.
