Why not speakon?


Hi is there any home audio brands that would offer speakon out of amp and in to speakers connectors?
Why most most of home audio equipment isn't designed for speakon? What is the disadvantage to bananas, spades or bare wire?
czarivey

Showing 1 response by chayro

Most equipment is designed for the desires of the marketplace and audiophiles want the ability to endlessly screw around with different types of connections in lieu of actually listening to music. The marketplace won't tolerate being limited to one type of connector in many cases. Even Naim, a long-time champion of the DIN connection, now offers RCAs as well. I don't know, but I believe that speaker designers would usually prefer to build speakers with dedicated amplifiers optimized for their designs, but that's another thing that fell by the wayside. But I fully understand that anyone selling a product has to bow to the market, at least to some degree.