Banana Plug Question

[brett_day]

I am wondering if you guys might know if my Receiver accepts banana plugs! I have a sony ddw900 receiver and they have the screw down speaker connectors. There are holes in the back of the speaker connectors for what i think may be banana plugs, but the holes are not very deep!

Sorry i am still a noob to this! lol! Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Slec]

If the receiver has these coming our the back, then it does


Yep your receiver does... Found a pic on Amazon. You just push the plug into the screw terminal (aka binding post).

[un4gvn94538]

are they really necessary? do they add anything to the audio?

[brett_day]

Originally Posted by un4gvn94538

are they really necessary? do they add anything to the audio?

i don;t think they add anything to the audio, more than anything i am just trying to make my whole speaker wire situation better....i just think it would look cleaner

[un4gvn94538]

Originally Posted by brett_day

i don;t think they add anything to the audio, more than anything i am just trying to make my whole speaker wire situation better....i just think it would look cleaner

i know what you mean, i hate watching a movie and having the rear of my recevier looking at me with all those wires just messin

[Slec]

I use them for ease of setup. They don't add fidelity or anything. When I dust off my shelves, they make it a quick job do hook everything back up..

[brett_day]

Originally Posted by un4gvn94538

i know what you mean, i hate watching a movie and having the rear of my recevier looking at me with all those wires just messin

lmao! another thing that concerns me though is that the speaker connections are so close to each other back there i am affraid that one day some of those wires are going to touch each other and short!

[un4gvn94538]

Originally Posted by brett_day

lmao! another thing that concerns me though is that the speaker connections are so close to each other back there i am affraid that one day some of those wires are going to touch each other and short!

i dont keep the bare part that long. but i understand what you mean. i rarely ever remove or unhook the equipment and dust with a long reaching swiffer doohickie

[Moefiz]

Originally Posted by brett_day

lmao! another thing that concerns me though is that the speaker connections are so close to each other back there i am affraid that one day some of those wires are going to touch each other and short!

You have nothing to worry about, it just give you a cleaner look will still sound the same way if you get them or not.

[moviefan]

Originally Posted by brett_day

lmao! another thing that concerns me though is that the speaker connections are so close to each other back there i am affraid that one day some of those wires are going to touch each other and short!

Sony generally uses 3/4" spacing for the +&- terminals, so you can use dual banana plugs. This gives you the ability to use 1 connector per speaker wire.

Many better speakers have the same terminals, so you can use the dual plugs at both ends of the speaker wire.

[Beta Man]

if nothing else, it's easier to connect because if you have thick wires, it's tough to turn the binding posts once you have a ton of wires back there....