Bare and solderless cables make the sound worse - all about terminating speaker cables

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Couldn’t understand the language but I will say, I like the Speakon connections. Pro audio stuff. XLR for interconnects are nice too.

English subtitles are available. It’s just good advice on cable terminations, without audiophile snake-oil marketing-speak. Home-audio should have adopted a standard cable connector like speak-on many years ago. The fact that any commercial products have bare-wire connections in this day and age is absurd, but here we are.

I’ve been building cables for the last 40 years using Honda connectors (robot guys will know what they are) and Amphenol connectors. Don’t know how many RG9 connectors I’ve crimped over the years, maybe 500? I agree that home audio connections suck. That’s why I only use Speak-On connectors on my DIY speakers.

Very interesting. I was expecting them to be related to Honda Motor Company. But they were developed by the Honda Tsushin Kogyo company - founded in 1932, incorporated in 1947, and released the MR series (commonly referred to as “Honda connectors”) in the late 1960s.

Spades, RCA, and certain banana plugs are just fine. Some nanners are shitty.

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