Help identifying part

[stavvy]

Hope someone can help. After a living room rearrangement to increase the distance between my speakers I need to make up some new speaker cables (made them as cheap as possible last time by making them as short as I could). This time I want to make a good job of them and tidy them up a bit by using braided sleeving etc. Rather than just having heat shrink over the junction where the single length of cable splits into two for the pos/neg and treble/bass wires I fancied using the little metal 'boots'. I don't know the proper name for these but audioquest seem to use them on the cables a lot i.e. http://www.audioquest.com/flat-rock/comet

I am not under any illusion as to any sonic benefits of what I am planning but I do like things to look neat and tidy. Does anyone know the proper term for these parts and if it is possible to buy them? I have seen a few on ebay from abroad but they are expesnive and look a bit naff!

Thanks!!

 

[The_Lhc]

They're called Banana Plugs and you can buy them very cheaply all over the place.

 

[John Duncan]

I took it to mean the metal 'splitter' thing further down

 

[stavvy]

Yeah, sorry, wasn't too clear in my description But John is right about the part down from the banana plugs...

 

[floyd droid]

Flea bay is your friend. Speaker Cable Boots.

 

[stavvy]

cheers mate, these are the ones I spotted but didnt like all that much. unfortunately, searching cable boots tends to bring up mainly the heat shrink variety

 

[floyd droid]

There was at the time I was looking around some carbon fibre type ones but stoopidly expensive. There was also some plain ally ones.

 

[floyd droid]

 

[floyd droid]

 

[stavvy]

yeah they were ridiculously expensive and if i remember correctly they were all from hong kong. Thought it would have been a relatively easy thing to get hold of in the UK