Spades vs. Banana plugs ??

@ghdprentice

I’ve done many years of DIY using high end cables and connectors and had spades and bananas. Left bananas connectors long ago due to poorer sound quality.

Bananas, particularly the ones that spin are, for sound quality, not great and the connection degrades faster over time due to the low compression slip in fit.

Perfectly fine for mid fi audio tho where uncompromised SQ is not a goal  

Bananas,  My Naim Supernait 3 only except Bananas.  

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My Furetech spades haven't ever came  loose on wbt binding post although I broke one wbt post over tightening it. The trick is to get its tightness just right. You have to turn the spade along with the post.  Also I installed the wbt's myself farther apart than most speakers would come from the factory leaving plenty of room for them not to spin around and touch.  Next time I might go with bananas though 

Anyone know if they make a speaker cable that's terminated with a combination of both spade and banana connectors?

Double the surface contact, best of both worlds!

For what it’s worth, coming from Monoprice 12g wire with Nakamichi bananas, I went with the Viborg pure copper banana plugs on Furutech FS-A36 12g speaker cable. I tried one speaker with the Nakamichi & the other with the Viborg both treated with Stabilant & the Viborg & the OCC Copper made a HUGE difference. And I thought my system sounded good before the change. Also when I did the UPGRADE, I tried the Viborg pure silver & lost the ''3D/openness'' of the pure copper.