Why You Should NEVER Buy These Banana Plugs! Fospower Banana Plugs OR Amazon Basics?

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[PedroCorrales]

Strange. I have been using Nakamichi for a while now, and never had an issue

[BourneAccident]

I had 40 of them on their way when I found this video yesterday. Wow. Well, today they came in and I hooked up my 5.1 system and so far so good.

[ckmaxx]

I like the locking banana plugs from BJC…

[hoser]

I have had both the Sewel and amazon plugs. Although they look very similar the spring portion of the Sewel has been much better in my experience. With repeated use the Amazon arced portion would collapse and lose connection. I have had to rearc these with a small screwdriver but they are very fragile. The Selwel have fewer arced strips but tend to stay flexable and remain in contact better.

[audioeeze]

You are spot on. I bought Fospower plugs myself and so far I have had 3 go faulty on me. one of the banana ends broke off into my terminal and that was one big pain in the ass to get out. This whole time I have been blaming myself for making some kind of mistake while I was assembling them. This video is a huge relief for me. Thank you for sharing my man!

[MovieGuy]

I don’t unplug my speaker wire at all but I do use banana plugs regardless. My reasoning is quite simple. For most AV Receivers, they are so crammed these days that it’s next to impossible to easily reach the binding section and slip in the bare wire. And even after getting it barely in, it just looks messy to me and will be hard to verify if I got the polarity correct since there is usually no color coding on the wire.

So yeah…. I’ll sacrifice possibly a little performance for convenience & neatness but it’s worth it.

[chrisenns]

Thanks for this video. I have those exact Fospower banana plugs. No issues so far but I haven't been pulling them out very often.

[edcolston]

I’ve had problems with these too, set screws cross threading when loosening among other problems. The speaker snap banana plugs are the best I’ve found so far

[BobbyBass-xi]

I tried 16 gauge bare speaker wire but didn’t get a good connection with my old Yamaha AVR. I bought a pack of 5 pair of Fospower plugs on Amazon. One was defective. Used the other 8 with one left over. Got good connections for 2 pairs of speakers. Plugged in okay and the speakers sound good. I haven’t unplugged them yet. We’ll see how things go. I tried Seawell speaker cables on another system and the banana plugs kept loosening, so I wouldn’t recommend them. Thanks for sharing your experience. Rock on.

[nood]

Thanks for demonstrating how to instal banana plugs. I was lost.

[mrcarpentersc]

Same issues with the Fospower banana plugs here. I bought the Sewell plugs a few months ago but have not swapped them out. I'm constantly tightening the Fospower sheath, very annoying.
Great video!!

[VIctorCarruyo]

Yup, both brands rattle like crazy. Been using crimp on and solder BFA bananas for years now. Less resistance, better reliability. The only downside of bare wire is oxidation, which sucks here in FL.

[xaerothehero]

The Amazon Basics also is a 2-part connector body (excluding the outside) and does also have the tip come loose every now and then. They're actually pretty bad also. A real banana plug that DOES work that is milled in ONE piece is the Norstone BLS-500 which are phenomenal. They also have dual opposing screw's that clamp onto the wire in a MUCH more secure manner.

[LuxAudio]

Why don't you use pre terminated speaker cable? A well terminated speaker cable avoids oxidation which can affect sound quality, especially in copper.

[bigsteve]

I picked up the Sewell ones a few years ago after Youthman recommended them. Moved stuff around several times unhooking and hooking my speakers back up and have had zero problems with them

[EverythingHomeTheater]

Great video Barrett. Thank you for the recommendation, I've not tried the basics yet but the Sewell get a lot of kudos. I personally have been buying the Nakamichi

[ssgeek]

If u bye 'Some Chinesium ' plugs the metal is coated with something nice looking like gold or silvery shinny stuff. Ultimately it's all about contact resistance and perhaps more importantly how many wire strands you wire has

[gaurd]

I’m an end user that set it and forgot it Until I upgrade. I like it raw! I always figured Why would i introduce anything that would degrade the signal or worse fail. 12 gauge screwed down tight!

[fedurrrass]

I use Klotz cable with Nakamichi banana plug. Very good no problem.

[simonbeasley]

I got some gold plated versions of the classic Deltron banana plugs. Plain, unpretentious red and black plastic and they use solder, not tiny grub screws. In my opinion this must make a far better connection that's more secure and with lower resistance.