WBT silver angled connectors are really easy to fit and great sounding. It's recommended to crimp the cable ends before inserting them in the connector but I've used bare wires with great success. Tinning the wires is not recommended
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.