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I bought 10 Nakamichi banana plugs thru e-Bay in January from e2wholesale in Hong Kong. Paid 11.93 for 10 and they shipped for free.Took about 10 days to get here. They look real good and are decent quality and they do the job well, I will say this though, Having never seen a real Nakamichi plug to compare to, I'm not sure these are the real thing. For $11.93  . I also have the Axiom banana plugs and they are a much better quality.
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I tried the Axiom banana plugs (both locking and regular) and found the non-locking ones were very loose fitting in the speaker post (M80,VP150) and I had to constantly tighten the locking ones as they tended to loosen. I went to the GLS locking bananas and have had no problems with them. The Axioms are just sitting in a closet.
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but one thing I did notice was how the guitar intro kept moving slowly across the soundstage and back a couple of times. I'm sure it was there before, but it was very noticeable this time.
That sounds like my last room - the image was good, but it moved around. I figured out it was the reflections as the voice/instrument changed Hz and triggered different room modes. Try towing the speakers in more and moving closer to your seating position, if you can. Aiming the tweeter more at me, helped clarify the image in my new room.
Panny 3000 PJ, 118" Carada, Denon 3300, PS3, Axiom QS8, PSB 5T, B&W sub, levitating speaker wire
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Do you have the song "Lighning Crashes", Charles ?....it almost sounds like it was intentionally recorded like that. I could be totally wrong though. The speakers are toed in at an angle that would put the sweet spot about 18 to 20 ft (right at the back wall/fireplace), maybe I need to toe them a little more to intersect at 12 to 14 ft or so.
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Lightning Crashes by whom? There's been about 5000 recordings of that...
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Really? I've only heard the original.(Live) Maybe there is an Elmer Fudd version....Witening Kwashes?
Last edited by alan; 03/06/09 03:36 PM.
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Lightning Crashes by Live.
It's odd that you never noticed the effect before, it's pretty obvious. I believe the effect used on the guitar is called "rotating speaker", heck it might have been a real rotating speaker, not just an effect.
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Oh, wait, I'm mixing it up with Landslide. 
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Funny thing is you could have bought them when you were there and this would be a non-issue. Alan needs to retrain his audio experts. " Would you like frie, er, bannana plugs with that?"
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Do you have the song "Lighning Crashes", Charles ?....it almost sounds like it was intentionally recorded like that. I could be totally wrong though. The speakers are toed in at an angle that would put the sweet spot about 18 to 20 ft (right at the back wall/fireplace), maybe I need to toe them a little more to intersect at 12 to 14 ft or so. I have the song, but have not listened to it in years. Thus, you threw me with the moving image fake. Nice one. Surprised no one called me on saying to tow in your speakers. That was easy one. Normally I get
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