Too terminate or not

I replaced banana with spades on my multi individual strand cable.  I bought Audioquest spades but standard crimper did poor job.  I borrowed Audioquest crimper (almost identical) from the local Audio store and it worked perfect.  After crimping I soldered it heating wires first to prevent thermal expansion of the spade (to keep zero oxygen connection).  I know, many purists are against using third material (solder), but connection, even if not 100%, is so tight that solder doesn't matter (electrically).  If you "suck at terminating cables", then better send it to professionals - it is one time expense.

audio2design, I agree - inductance (important factor) will be similar to lamp cord while capacitance (less important) will be on high side.  Dielectric constant of cotton is very low (1.3-1.4), but for oiled cotton (why?) it is over 3, increasing capacitance greatly.  I assume that dielectric absorption follows.  It might sound great, but from electrical point of view it doesn't make any sense. >$30/meter is not expensive in audio world, but you can buy good lamp cord for $1/meter.