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What say you binding posts or direct wire?

If I can get away with it I don't use BP. I find even the best like Mundorfs etc all sound inferior to direct wiring. Seems illogical to me to use costly cables hooked up to a binding post and then having just hook up wire after the posts. I get better-sounding results just by using quality speaker cable wired directly into my networks with the same cable type after to transducer. 

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Binding posts on amps are generally easy to replace.

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I am a believer in the low mass theory of connections.  To summarize it simply, don't put a large mass of copper that the electrons have to "fill up" as the signal goes out of the amp or into the speakers.  I'm not saying it is a game changer or that those of you that use binding posts can't sound great.  It's just a tweak I believe in.

I make my own low mass binding posts out of 3/16" diameter 6N copper bored out to accept a connector.  I mount them in the center of a piece of 3/8" threaded nylon to fasten them to the amp or speaker.   For low mass connectors I use the bodyless BFA connectors (google them).  Excellent results.  

Jerry

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