Monoprice 109437 5PRJX74047 Gold Plated Speaker Banana Plugs – 5 Pairs – Open Screw Type, For Speaker Wire, Home Theater, Wall Plates And More

Easy to use and really good value for banana plug adapters. It's got a high quality look and feel because it's made of brass and it's fully gold plated.

Good quality, fair price. My wire is 8 gauge. They'd take a larger wire, like 6 gauge, I think. Larger than that, I couldn't say.

I was having some problems recently with a new receiver ( Marantz SR5006 ) that I suspected might be caused by intermittent short-circuits from the speaker cables. Accessing the rear of the receiver is hard enough that I preferred to deal with the problem in a single session, affixing banana plugs to every cable and eliminating any chance for shorts. I mixed GLS "Generation 4" Gold plugs with these more basic plugs, for comparison. The GLS plugs cost three times as much, shipped. Would they be three times as good? All the plugs worked and the receiver is working as it should. The GLS plugs are indeed better designed than the generics -- they have a non-conducting shaft, to reduce the chance of a short-circuit if you have other bare wires nearby. They work with a very wide range of wire sizes, and they're very easy to use. These lower-end plugs have no non-conducting sheath, they don't work as well with larger wires, and it was not as easy to reattach the two parts once the wire was threaded. For larger wires, they provide a second mode of attachment through the hole in the side but much more exposed. Provided you have the time to set them up carefully, and assuming you want to save a few dollars, these generic plugs are fine. If you are willing to pay for convenience, the others are a good choice too.

Great product

These are well machined, solid connectors. Use them before trying to connect the speaker cable to the speakers if your amplifier and speakers have the banana plug connector/posts. My rear channels (Polk dipole surround speakers) had a colored (red/black) plug in the bana plug, which popped out. My center channel doesn't support the banana plug, but my front left/right floor standing Polks do, as did my Denon receiver, so once I measured out the cable lengths and screwed on these connectors, plugging everything in was a piece of cake. I got one wire backward which was picked up when I did the Audyssey sound checks, so flipping around the plug polarity was a piece of cake. The trick to these connectors is to push the cable through from the end and then have it fan out at the end so it will be pinched when you screw the 2 pieces together. The fastest way I found to do this is to unscre the connectors so you can see all the way through the hole, then lightly twist the speaker cable and thread it so it goes through the end easily then when it comes out at the hole use another plug end to push the cable part way out the side of the hole, then screw connector together, pinching the cable strands. After the first 2 it's quick and easy. No sound distortion, good connections and easy assembly and management. I wish I had these years ago. Don't forget to buy enough for both ends of the cables, and if you have patch panels for the speaker cables, you might need even more!

This style of banana plug is the easiest to use. Just thread the bare wire and hand-tighten- now you got banana plugs! Plug and play!

I've been in the HiFi game for a long time, and these are by far the worst banana plugs I've ever used. The contact pins detach from the plug itself if you so much as look at them the wrong way. On top of that, after detaching from the plug, the pins can easily get stuck deep in the speaker terminal and require very small tweezers and a steady hand to remove them. Spend the extra few dollars and get literally anything else.

I picked up several pairs of these a few months ago because they were low cost and well reviewed. They were easy to connect but I had problems with my speaker wires pulling out even when the plug was screwed all the way closed. This probably wouldn't be an issue with heavier gauge speaker wire or wires that had been tinned on the ends. My only real complaint is that one of the tips broke off in my receiver when I went to unplug the speaker recently. This is the first time I've unplugged it since installing these plugs and I'm careful to have plenty of slack on my speaker wires so they don't pull at the back of my reciever. I think it was just a manufacturing defect with that plug. The other thing to keep in mind is that these will add and inch or more to the depth of your receiver when plughed into the back. More if you connect the wires axially. This wasn't a problem for our old TV stand but our new stand is fairly shallow so my receiver sticks out slightly from the front. To be clear this wasn't an issue with these plugs, just our lack of planning in accommodating the increased depth do to the plugs and wires. I would buy these again if I were budget conscious and didn't mind replacing one or two if they fail. They work fine and make plugging my stereo in sooooo much easier. I'm going to keep the ones I have but if any more snap I'm going to cough up for some heavier duty and lower profile ones.

perfect for my all avr, amp and spkrs

These Monoprice 5 Pairs of High-Quality Gold Plated Speaker Banana Plugs, Open Screw Type are very good value and work extremely well.

よく見てないから悪いんだけど、ケーブルを横から指すので、直角に折れ曲がりアンプに抜き差しする際ちょっと使いにくい。 多分これはもう買わないと思う。(別に見つけたのを使ってるし。^^;） てっきり中でねじ止めかと思ってたんだけどなぁ。 それ以外は今んところ問題ないんだけど...。

Funcionan a la perfeccion y hacen lo que deben hacer.

Great product installs simply with no tools and allows for daisy chaining multiple speakers.