800 owners, are you using spades or bananas?

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by joey_v

What would be the reasoning?

Faster, easier swapping of amps/speakers.

Or were you referring to sound? In that case, not so much.

[joey_v]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Faster, easier swapping of amps/speakers.

Or were you referring to sound? In that case, not so much.

Kal -

I meant sound.. I figured probably more secure with spades but easier to swap with bananas but sound probably not too big a difference.

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by joey_v

Kal -

I meant sound.. I figured probably more secure with spades but easier to swap with bananas but sound probably not too big a difference.

The AQ bananas are very secure and inspire confidence.

[Rod#S]

Kal, how is it you find that bananas are easier to disconnect/reconnect vs spades? Isn't it just a matter of twisting i.e. losseing/tightening the binding posts? So more or less the same amout of effort as bananas, all done by hand?

[Kal Rubinson]

In practice, no. I can reach down and, with one hand, pull off or insert both +/- cables with the bananas. Using spades, I need two hands, especially with the reinsertion.

[Rod#S]

Ah, I see now.

[Venere]

Basically the rationale for why God invented banana plugs and mankind adopted them. Easier.

[Mercury3]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

My main motivation in changing speaker cables was to move from spades to bananas. The spade connections have served fine and were my original preference. However, as someone who changes/swaps equipment more often than most, I finally decided that a tool-free, less twiddly connecter will make my life easier.

+1 I also prefer spades but I'm constantly tinkering around almost never ending thus bananas are so much easier. Easier too if ya need to quickly reverse polarity in bi-amped or multi-amped systems.

[Mercury3]

Originally Posted by Venere

Basically the rationale for why God invented banana plugs and mankind adopted them. Easier.

lol exactly

[satiger]

I guess the question is about which provides more contact - I remember reading some articles (forgot the sources), all states spade provides more contact than banana and is the standard in recording studios.

I then re-terminated some of my bananas with AQ spades. Did I see/hear any sonic improvement, I would say no. It is just a peace of mind of optimizing all possible to ends to get maximum juice out of our gear .