Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion.

@carlsbad2

I actually just ordered a few gold plated copper wire ends - if that’s the proper English term - to experiment with that.

Great minds think alike, and all that. 😉

Thank you for the advice!

Anything I diy gets 5 way posts for being 'enough for any reasonable situation posed'...Bananas if that given line is meant to stay that way semi-permanently...

If it's 'temp', I goes naked; Longer than 'temp', but meant to stay put, I'll tin the nudity....put a spade on it if it's on/off alot....

Banana fan for awhile now, beats screwing around, literally...

...and certainly more to access excess upon....*L*

Do whatcha' do....

I was using the nakamichi bananas for years until I tried the Viborg connectors. I experimented with the pure copper/silver plated & the pure copper ones. To my liking, the pure copper was a winner with my system. 

My Audio Art speaker cables have locking 🍌 plugs.  They ain’t goin nowhere!

Vice-grips on your binding posts?  Really?  Must do wonders for resale.  AudioQuest makes a great hand wrench that fits both terminal sizes.

For my speaker cable, prefer bananas on the amplifier end as I need to swap + and - for a phase reversal.  Spades on the speaker end is all Wilson will accept.  

However, the silver spades on the big Wireworld Platinum cable are soft and sometimes break off when moving the speakers around.  Keep a bag of replacements.  Oh the problems of affluence.