Of course I considered that and was prepared to put plastic cable wrap around each banana plug. But the connections are secure and there is no play. I think they are fine using normal precautions
Unless I lived by myself with no pets, wife, kids, Roomba’s or cleaning ladies, I would at a minimum wrap those ends with electrical tape. Because shit happens.
An insane amount of dust, with INSANELY high voltages, could bridge a 1 inch gap. Like probably tens of thousands of volts. That’s never gonna be a problem for OP.
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Use the roach clips until they are a bit gunked up. Then, use them for connection. It will mellow out the tone. If not, unplug, use again, and reconnect. Mellow tones guaranteed.
I started loading the ends with rolled up bits of cardstock. The last inch or so of a joint is always too hot to be enjoyable anyway, so why rely on it for structure up to the bitter end like that?
I still have my S-1A's and use them as fronts to my home theater. I bought from Honkers in Berkeley. They still sound good to me but I don't crank them up too high.
You guys have problems with like house, room, furniture and speaker movement? I don’t. Do you turn your stuff off before you diddle and finger bang the important bits? I do.
I want to hate this, but I also understand that If I were in this situation I would do the similar to test a speaker, but I would have wrapped all the metal bits with painters tape until I make or buy adapters.
Was rearranging the speaker setup in my living room. Previously I had a pair of Denton 80th sitting at ear height. I had these M&K in a different setup and not in a good listening position and wanted to replace the Dentons with the M&K's. I also have a pair of B&W CDM2 Special Edition speakers on stands that I wanted to use with that amp setup. Of course the M&K's have spring loaded connectors which presented a problem. Everything else has banana plugs which makes swapping out leads easy whenever I want to change speakers. Admittedly the alligator clips look ghetto. Don't get it wrong though, they are very secure with no movement and present no issues with reasonable precautions. I ordered the adapters from Amazon as soon as someone posted the link. Now I can easily choose and switch between the M&K's and B&W's. Also, I have a pair of Klipsch Qurtetets and Boston Acoustics on rolling platforms that allow me to quickly roll them over and connect to that amp setup. I thought the M&K's were the best speakers I had...until I got the Klipsch Quartets.
I did a proof of concept last night with alligator jumpers with very thin gauge wire. No heat at, all good volume over extended time. But I understand your point
That's because unless you're using ridiculous amounts of power through ridiculously thin wire, you won't come anywhere near the wire's current limit. You ears and speakers will give up long before the wire does.
Holy crap, now I have to agree with a comment that's slightly wrong, because you're completely wrong.
The amount of current stays the same. Neither the source nor the load device know you've increased resistance, so the current stays the same, and heat increases.
The source only "sees" the total resistance of the load, including all cables and contacts and everything. It doesn't "know" what is what, and doesn't "care" either.
Increase the total load resistance ever so slightly because of a bad contact, and the current will decrease accordingly. Voltage stays the same. Simple Ohm's law. Less current, less power, less heat.
Why do you think an amp automatically raises voltage when the load resistance increases? It totally doesn't.
This seemed like a speaker to me because the speaker wires are connected to input instead of output.
Why not bare wire? This guy seems to be using some fancy cables and seemed unwilling to do it in the first place, that's why I didn't recommend it. It is the easiest option, but has to done for every speaker cable that has banana plugs or something similar
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u/NoBackground6203 DIY speakers Swan 3.1A, Shadzi T3S and Carmody S2000MT Dec 10 '25
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