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

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!

They worked fine. You can install these in two ways. 1. take off the end, run the cable through it, bend the wire slightly and push into the plug end. The wire will come out through the hole in the plug end. Then tighten the cap part to secure the connection. This is the best method and results in a great connection and the speaker wire going straight into the plug. 2. loosen the cap, push the speaker wire through the side of the plug hole, tighten the cap. This is fine but you cables enter the plug at 90 degrees which can be a little tough in tight situations. My cables have very thick insulation, they were to large to go through the cap so I had to use the 90-degree option. I would have chosen larger plugs, but these did work fine and were very cost effective.

A must-have for connecting speakers to an amp. Just insert the wires, tighten the nut, and insert into the banana plug. Very easy to use and fits my amp very well.

These banana plugs are good quality and easy to use. They are inexpensive and that’s good for a lot of users that need quality equipment for their sound system but don’t want to break the bank doing so.

100% Brass all good for hi end speaker connections.

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.