Note, however, that some of those are meant for use in combination with speakers cables which are already terminated with spade lugs. You could also silly amounts of money on very high quality locking bananas from WBT or Cardas. I've done it both ways, the intended way and this damaging way. This process WILL damage the prongs of any locking banana plug by scraping, indenting, and/or bending them, but you will also get a very solid connection that way, more solid than possible through just locking the prong leaves to the inside of the binding post tunnel. I have never had one of these plugs fail in any way, much less bend.Ĭaveat: If your binding posts have large holes in them, you can choose to insert the entire prong part of the banana plug into that hole and clamp down hard on the prongs by both expanding the leaves and tightening the binding post nut onto the plug prongs. Bought separately, these Blue Jeans locking bananas are only $9 a pair. You could also just buy the Blue Jeans locking bananas separately and use other types of speaker cable with them, but then you will either have to solder your cable to the plug and that will take a high wattage soldering iron since the mass of the plug is high and thus takes a lot of heat to get a good solder connection or you can clamp the bare wire to the inside tunnel of the banana plug with the included set screw. No solder is as good as no solder at all, and the connections don't tarnish over time, unlike ordinary bare wire connections. I use these in conjunction with Belden or Canare speaker cables also sold by Blue Jeans, If you buy both the plugs and the cables from Blue Jeans, Blue Jeans uses its ultrasonic welding process to connect the cable strands directly to the plugs without solder. I have long used the gold-plated locking banana plugs sold by Blue Jeans Cables.
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