Hi all! New member, first post. I have a very basic question. I recently purchased a set of Blue Jeans speaker cables for my vintage Dynaco A25s. I've been using banana plugs which have worked perfectly, but I wanted to try BFA plugs. Don't ask me why. The BFAs enter the 3- way binding posts nicely, but about 1/4 of the connection sticks out. It's snug but it seems weird to see so much of the plug to be sticking out. Can someone lmk if this is normal? Appreciate your help! Thx so much!
Greg
The BFA plug stand for British Federation of Audio.
This is all part of EU stupidity. European AC sockets but not UK, ones can accept banana plugs. Apparently some knucklehead did put banana plugs in an AC receptacle and killed himself. So the EU banned banana plugs including in the UK. So the UK came up with the slightly different BFA plug to get round the EU ban, since you can't connect anything except an MK plug to an MK socket, until the longer grounding pin is inserted and the holes are not round anyway, like in the EU.
So the EU also banned the BFA plug, but the UK left the EU and banana plugs and BFA plugs are legal in the UK, but not the EU. Amps sold in the EU have to be sold with plastic plugs placed in the speaker terminals which the buyer has to remove with difficulty.
Just more EU stupidity. When the EU should have done and should do, is to make the AC plug design safe, and also not make live and neutral reversible. This is just another example of why the EU is a disaster.
