banana plugs a must?

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Hi All

I have ventured into the world of true home cinema and updating my sony dav all in one to an onkyo 607 with q acoustics 1050i speaker package. Included in the package is qed micro speaker cable and a standard sub cable, now the store i am looking to order from say there is no need for banana plugs and that i can just cut the wire as required and hard wire in. So my question is - is this sound advice?

Thanks in advance

 

[Anonymous]

I would say - NO (definitely not at the Amp end)

Very fiddly and you lose the simplicity of being able to unplug when (and it will) the time arises.

Regards.

 

[Anonymous]

Agreed. Also you run the risk of shorting with untidy wire strands.

 

[Big Aura]

It makes everything much tidier, but it's an added expense. I've never used them, and am on my second amp (and have moved house 6 times, and re-wired probably another 4 times over the years) and never had a short. Perhaps I'm just more careful.... Interested to see if anyone has actually had a short? Most amps have an over-ride so they shut down in case of a short anyway?

 

[Anonymous]

hmmmm so 6 to 1 and half a dozen to the other?

does anyone have this setup with equipment and have any input? are you happy etc? i was considering the sony 2400 with jamo 102s but due to the stock problems and given approval to spend a little more hence the extra spend! i'm looking for a big improvement over my old dav system which currently plays everything from the tv through a optical lead.

 

[aliEnRIK]

Adding bananas into the mix could slightly deteriorate sound quality. Personally I use good quality silver plated spades as I believe the connections slightly better than bananas

Any bare copper wires (if that is indeed what theyre made of) will 'oxidise' so I squirt copper with 'DEOXIT' to prevent it.

I actually HAVE shorted an old kenwood amp and it auto cut out and still works fine to this day. It was when I did this that I found the gold plated plugs I was using were in fact degrading the sound a little which is why I now use decent silver plated ones (Sold my Kenwood amp years ago).