Term: Banana Plugs

Use these instead of bare wire at the end of your speaker cables for convenient plug-in speaker (high-level) connections between your A/V receiver’s speaker output terminals and your loudspeakers. No improvement in sound quality over bare wire. Virtually all 5-way binding posts on newer speakers and subwoofers accept either single or dual banana plugs. Many A/V receivers’ speaker outputs also accept banana plugs if there is enough space.

Note: Banana plugs won’t work with older speakers’ and receivers’ plastic spring “push” connectors, which accept only bare wire.

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