Do I need Banana Plugs?

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I have recently bought some QED silver anniversary cable for my front and centre speaker and some Ixos XHS233 Adhesive flat speaker cable for my rears. I know that if you don't have an air tight connection for your speaker cable then it can oxidise and reduce sound quality.

I think there are two options to avoid that, by either soldering your wire to a plug or using those QED airloc cables. However I have already bought my cables so can't get them fitted with the airloc plugs and I don't have or know how to solder.

Say if my speaker cables were a year old what sort of sound loss would I get, would it even be detectable to the human ear if you ran two sets side by side, one with perfect cables and one with normal bare wire?

I want the best for my system but there is a limit.

I currently just trap the wire into the speaker terminals on all my speakers and my amp.

Thanks

Stu

 

[Peter Larsen]

Depending on the type of cable I have always re-cut the cable once a year (its only about 2 cm's of length you lose per year), and approx. once a month I have tightened the screws on the amp and speakers. It's not very much they can be tightened, but it is possible.

You should be able to get your local hifi-dealer to solder your cables with banan-plugs. As a matter of fact I'm gettting mine plugged as we speak. I got tired of the above

 

[Anonymous]

The problem I would have is that my rear cable is under the carpet and stuck to the walls so I can't take the cables anywhere.

It would seem that I will have to take the drop in quality, if I do actually notice any difference.