bare wire or banana plugs

[j_garcia]

Oddly enouh, while I was auditioning speakers I noticed that only one store I went into used bananna plugs on their display gear. I had one local place move speakers from the display/showroom to the listening room without a bananna plug anywhere. The one place that did use bananna plugs, the "sales engineer" had a little "tool" he "plugged" the banannas into between speaker changes. I'll asume it was a tensioner/spreader???

Just my observations.

I am guessing that is related to the amount of time most shops have on their hands between sales when it comes to moving things around The better shops in my area all used some kind of connector (not necessarily bananas), but the smaller shops (the ones that are all gone now) didn't - not that those things are related. I wouldn't expect connectors at a Best Buy or similar.

Yes, I'd guess it was some kind of tensioner or something to verify the cable was still connected and working that he was using.