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In my 12 years as an audiophile audiogear lover, I have gone through over a dozen speakers. Not one has binding posts that fit well with speaker cables spades!! Ive spent nervous hours trying to expand and bend speaker spades so that they make a nice fit into the binding post. I only hope that one sunny day comes where speaker designers and speaker cable makers have a world summit to get it right once and for all.
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dwpc
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Why do you want to use spades? Every mechanical connection, be it splice, crimp, or solder, creates an interface that the signal must cross, adding resistance (maybe capacitance..its been along time since E school) and detracts from the signal. Unless the laws of physics have been changed, a direct bare wire connection may not look as tidy, but seems to me to be the best. I suspect this is liable to start a debate.
cornfedboy
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justlisten: what sort of speakers have you been buying? what cables? i've never had to "bend" or "expand" a spade to get it snugged on a speaker post. -kelly
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justlisten OP
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most every speaker cable ive purchased and have seen here on Agon have come with spades. right now im using Yamamura 4000s, and Duntech Black Knights. I recently had Martin Logan CLS, Acousitc Energy ae2 in the home, and just recently recd a pair of Scientific Fidlelity Teslas. The problem that I find is that the Teslas and many other speakers have Edison Price Posts, and most spades have that U shaped spade joint that is smaller than the conecting rod on the EP Post. Trying to get the most contact area and to create a snug fit, ive had to bend open the spade. Am I alone in this??

thanks all

Derrick
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