Banana clip wall connectors.

[Hochmeister]

Hello,

I am running speaker wire in wall for my home theatre system. I purchased a full set of wall plates with bannana clip jacks that look really nice and my intention is run the wall cable to those jacks and use another cable with banana clips on each end to bridge from the wall plate to the speaker.

It now occurs to me that i am breaking the conductor in two places before it hits the speaker and that, even through I am using quality gold plated conecters, this can't help the signal.

Is this a mistake, or will will the effect be none to minimal versus running the unbroken cable from reciever to speaker.

I am using 12 AWG copper from monoprice.

Thanks for your advice.

--David

 

[MDS]

I don't think there will be any noticeable difference.

My house is setup similarly except that I currently have the bare wire in the binding post on the back of the wall plate. That allows a very tight connection but using bananas on the back should be fine too if the bananas you use fit tightly into the binding post.

 

[m_vanmeter]

banana "plugs" are nice where you intend to connect and disconnect the cables often....they really are overkill at every connection along the way to the speaker. At the rear of the receiver is where banana plugs are very handy to insure there are no "copper whiskers" shorting out on near-by connections in the cramped spacing on the receiver back panel.

All that said, since the voltage in speaker cables is high compared to digital connections and it's analog, the extra intermediate connections should not be a problem....and every plug and receptical I have seen was already gold plated. Monoprice has good pricing on both the banana plugs and all sorts of wall plate speaker connection hardware.

 

[Hochmeister]

To be clear I only plan to use the bannana clips on the wire between the speakers and wall jack. I will screw the wire direct to the back of the plates so it sounds like my set up is just like yours.

Monprice is where I picked mine up. Great stuff.

Thanks,

--David

 

[phlakvest]

You should have no problems with that. People do this all the time. It makes for a nice clean job, and if you ever decide to sell the house having a room pre-wired for sound looks good.

But if you are woried that you might just leave about 2' of speaker wire extra when you connect it to the wall plates then you can go directly to the speakers if you really want to.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

I have done this before and it was no problem and a nice, clean set up.

 

[j_garcia]

It will make no audible difference one way or the other, so do what works the best for you.