Tool-less Banana Plugs (in Canada)
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Alright so my Axiom's are on order, wires and interconnects will be order in a few weeks I'm assuming, I need banana plugs.
Someone over at AVSForum recommended Monster Audio's Quick Lock's as they just screw down. I have low vision so I'd prefer not to solder (as I can't) and want something that goes on by hand.
I figured this'd be the place to ask since you all own speakers like mine
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If those are anything like the ones from BlueJeans cable (great company, no offense meant...), then you may want to consider some that have small screws to hold the cable instead. I like the ones I got from Home Depot. Two teeny screws hold the cable into the plug.
As a side question, why do you need banana plugs? I use them only on my receiver side, because the H/K binding posts are a pain to use with bare wire.
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something like this would work fine.
you can also get the individual kind like this
either one would work great. these are no sodering, just stick the wire in the hole, and clamp the screw down on the wire.. easy-peasy japanesey..
but check your local mom and pops electronics store.. they will usually have them in stock, and you ainbt gotta worry about buying them on line.
and dont get yourself pulled into the monster cable hype.. that stuff is too expensive, and way over-rated.
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Screws I can handle, not much more then that though. Also with my vision, a lot of stuff is done by touch, so trying to put bare wire into a hole vs. a solid piece of metal works much better for me.
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also I just looked into the monster one's and they're really expensive, I don't think I need to spend that much do I...
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Don't know your budget (price shown is for a pack of two plugs), but I use and really like, these.
They're real easy to use. No soldering, no screwdrivers.
You can see a seam on the body of the plug. It just screws apart at that seam. You stick the end of your wire up through the center hole in the bottom half, fan out the individual strands of the wire and fold them down over the top edge of the bottom half. Then just screw the top half back on, and plug 'em in.
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Is there a trick to those? Because (as I've posted about a thousand times now) I'm having a hard time getting a secure connection with them.
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Hello Daph
You can pick up banana plugs at Radio Shack - just unscrew them, slip the wire through the female base part, fan the ends of the wire, place the banana part over the base and fanned wire, screw the banana on, and voila, banana plug terminated wire.
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Ken, A secure connection between plug and speaker post, or a secure connection between the two parts of the plug? If it's the latter, it all depends on the gauge of your wire, and how you fan out the individual little wires. The thinner your wire, the more you have to kinda group the individual wires together to make a slightly thicker group for the two parts of the plug to grab. The thicker your wire, the more you have to fan out the individual wires to get the two halves to fit together well. Experiment a little.
here's how my 12 gauge looks.
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It's between the two parts of the plug. I'm trying to put a pair of 14 gauge wires into them, and I think I know what my issue is: the insulation of the pair of 14 gauge wires doesn't fit in the little hole, so I need to strip slighly longer pieces. I see how it would be fine with a single cable. Not the right tool for the job, I guess. I'll just shut up about how they don't work, then!
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