- Amazon Basics Gold Plated Banana Plugs Speaker Wire Connectors, 12 Pairs (24 Count), Easy Install, 0.5" x 0.5" x 1.3", Black

These Amazon Basics gold-plated banana plugs are excellent for the price and the number of pairs you get. The quality feels solid and more than good enough for most home setups. I’m not an audiophile with super high-end expectations, but for my 5.1 system they work perfectly. They pair great with my Klipsch speakers and provide a clean, secure connection. They also make it incredibly easy to quickly connect and disconnect speakers, which is a huge plus. Great value and totally worth it.

Excellent choice for banana plugs. The quality of the plugs is decent for their price point. Using them is extremely easy, and they really make my audio installs look professional.

These work very well. Tried them out and then bought more to install in my entire 11.2 system when I installed the speakers.

These AmazonBasics banana plugs work great and are a solid replica of the more expensive Monster and Sewell options. The fit and finish feel good and they make connecting speaker wire to receivers and amps simple. The only real drawback is the appearance of the crimping teeth. They do not look like true 24K gold plating based on the color shade when compared to the plug body, so they lack a bit of the premium look. The plug design itself matches the older Sewell style and is noticeably longer. This works very well with many A V receivers since they insert fully and hold securely. However, with newer equipment that uses shallower banana jack connectors, the plugs will mostly stick out even when fully inserted. The photos show this clearly, where the plugs are connected all the way in but still protrude, which can make the connection feel slightly less stable. Overall they still work well, feel solid, and provide reliable performance. A good value choice if you want dependable banana plugs without paying premium prices.

These are extremely easy to use - a lot better than the type that uses a set screw. They're well made and surprisingly heavy. They plug in easily and stay plugged in. Solid connections, and would accept truly beefy wire. They're great!

These connectors are gems. But, they come with one flaw. I got the Amazon Basics Connectors as a swap for Goaycer’s. The Gooycer’s were really fantastic, and provided a surprising upgrade over my previous bare wire connections to my Amp and speaker posts. I rated them a 5 Star. The Amazon Basics are even better, but…. The sound improvement from is noticeable. It is especially true when listening to higher frequency sounds. The higher frequencies become more alive and open. The bass sound slightly less pronounced, but more detailed.The sound stage even seems have a bit more depth. The results are haute audio. So, what’s the downside? Yes. Expect pops when you first install these connectors. Along with the delicious sound, one gets pops. Be patient; they go away. My music. My rig. I’m an old school acoustic jazz head who loves pianists and horn players. My rig is a bit different as I use my TV media player as my streamer transport. I use its eARC out to a HMDI audio splitter. That connection is made via a simple HDMI 8K cord. I use the AUX out to a DAC (Schiit Modi +). (Both the splinter and DAC support a 24/192 format.) I use the DAC’s RCA out to a Cambridge AXA35.

These are copies of or sourced from the manufacturer of a product 2x the price. They are so good, if these Amazon Basics ones weren't available, I'd pay that higher price in a heartbeat. They secure the speaker wire, thick or thin very well. Sixteen gauge doesn't fall out. 12 gauge has no problems. How about 14/2 solid (not stranded) copper wire: it can do that! The last bananas I purchased that could accomplish that were 50% more expensive for these for only 2 pairs. Complaint: the base of the plug has quite a large opening. This of course is in place to allow thicker wire, still jacketed, into the plug. I'd recommend using shrink tubing around the wire if there is any gap to serve as strain relief.

I wasn’t sure about the design as I had previously used the type of banana plug where the speakers wire goes in on the side of the plug but I really like the design. I used 16 gauge speaker wire which worked great but I wonder if working with thicker 12 gauge would be more difficult to use. It would most likely work, but as opposed to just inserting the wire and tighten using a standard side wire banana plug where, you would need to separate the strands to fit the wire into the connector to screw on the plug end to secure the wire. Also, the metal plug end which is inserted is not fixed. You can easily twist the metal plug end and it turns. It has not caused any connection issues, but it needlessly introduces the potential for such problems. I don’t think that it’s necessarily a high risk, but I would prefer the most secure connections possible. Another plus of these plugs is that if the speaker connectors on your receiver or amp are close together having the wires going straight out the back of the plug makes it easier to plug and unplug the speakers and prevents the banana plugs from pushing against each other as can happen with the wire coming out of the side of the plug. Finally, having individual plugs for positive and negative is slightly more work to plug and unplug speakers compared to banana plugs where the positive and negative plugs are one piece and plug in together.

ケーブルとの接合は難なく出来ました。 Avアンプとスピーカとの取り付けも問題なし。グリップしやすいのでつけ外しが容易です。 音質周りはよくわかりません。満足です。

I did not expect such high quality product for such a low price.. simply superb and really great low price. I'm an Audiophile for last 25 years. I've bought all kinds of banana plugs abroad that are great. But expensive. I needed many to connect 2 home theater systems in the house. So all other options was too expensive. Hence I decided to try this as it was really cheap price. But I'm really impressed: It's very well machined and gold plated for that perfect connection. The only complaint I may have is that 12 guage cable barely fits through the hole (but fits without insulation). Just a niggle. But hardly anyone might be using 12guage... Simply WOW! Buy it... I'd recommend it to all my Audiophile friends.

the design, fit and fnisinsh of these banana clips is perfect. starting from ease of attaching it to your wires to the fit while plugging them into the speaker and AVR terminals which is neither too snug, nor too loose. However, having attached them to both ends of my speaker wires and on playing music and movies through them, there is a very perceivable drop in sound quality. the sensitivity of the speaker has reduced which is in itself evident of transmission loss. this also has an adverse affect on the frequency range and response of the speakers while reproducing sound which now sounds muffled compared to when the speakers were connected through bare wires. I'm planning to get rid off them as the level of dip in sound quality is not worth the otherwise terrific ease of convenience that these banana plugs offer. for reference, i am running a pair of KEF Q350's for the front channels (on Sound Foundations Nemesis stands), a Q-Acoustics Concept Centre Channel and a pair of Bostons Acoustics A26's driven through a Marantz SR6013 AVR and a Marantz PM6006(as a power amp for the KEF Q350s), so the system is transparent enough to easily convey any shortfall in whichever component is introduced into the setup. Update 2020 : decided to reinstall them after all. The convenience over having to screw in bare wires clinched it. I just switched to better wires (Mogami Neglex and QED QX16) so the shortcoming may have been in the amazonbasics wire (or my head; i may very well have been imagining loss os sensitivity) - i think a pink noise test with a spectrometer with the volume knob at a constant position is in order to confirm my suspicions.

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Idéal pour raccorder aux enceintes hifi avec du 2.5 mm maximum je pense que plus ne passera pas, sinon vous pouvez voir que oui ça bouge mais que le son ne craque pas et ne fluctue pas. Facile à monter dénudé environ 1cm retrousé les fils comme un parapluie puis revisé la deuxième partie Je doutais un peu à voir d'autres commentaires mais chez moi elles fonctionnent très bien. Joliment presenté dans leurs boîte (12) on peut faire du bicablage