Thanks, guys; if I remember correctly (I bought these cables nearly 30 years ago) the ones I want to shorten are Kimber 8TC with what looks like 4 individual and insulated blue wires/and 4 black wires on each negative run and the same on each positive run.
Using non-terminated speaker wire?
From all that I have read here on A'gon, my speaker cables should be several feet shorter; but that's not my question. If I was to shorten my speaker cables and then simply wrap the bare wire around the posts of my speakers, wouldn't that make a better connection than either bananas or spades? I did read the "bent banana thread" going on here on this forum, and i did a search on the AQ banana terminals, and I could definitely go that way, but just wondering about the wisdom(?) of using bare wire versus terminals.
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I remember your "spades drool, bananas rule" thread, @erik_squires . I take it the heat gun (I have one) is for finishing the job with heat-shrink? The wire I want to shorten is Kimber, and it appears to have 8 individually insulted strands for each cable. (8 for the positive and 8 for the negative.) Is this going to present any particular challenges I should be aware of? |