Nakamichi Excel Series 24k Gold Plated Banana Plugs 12 AWG - 18 AWG Gauge Size 4mm for Speakers Amplifier Hi-Fi AV Receiver Stereo Home Theatre Audio Wire Cable Screw Connector 4 Pcs (2-Pairs)

This is the second time I've bought a set of these and they're great. Very well designed. I particularly like how it assembles/disassembles and the 2 screw-downs that grip the wire strands.

Love these plugs. Set screws are so much easier to attach speaker cable. These feel solid and sound Great. I don’t believe in over spending on audio gear, but these are worth the price.

When it comes to screw-type banana plugs, these are the best I have used. I've been experimenting with making my own speaker cables recently and needed some that would work with 10 AWG, but these are listed as 12-18 AWG. The second product image makes it clear that you need to buy shorter (3mm) set screws for use with 10 AWG wire, which is a problem, because you can't find them, except in stainless steel & brass. However, the seller informed me that they were included in the package, which indeed they were. So, I wasted a few hours trying to come up with a solution to a problem that didn't exist - the manufacturer info is misleading.

Quality is great and made connections to my receiver simple and a breeze

If it were safe and convenient to solder behind my Marantz Cinema 30, I would have opted for a more robust banana plug, but these work fairly well for what they are. Honestly, if they were a little longer and had a third screw so you could use two on the bare wire and the third on the sheathing, I'd give them five stars. Really prefer to have some strain relief, so I opted to use only one screw to cinch the bare wire. The housing is quite thin, so it's easy to drop a screw when trying to get the head flush with the inside. Just not much thread, so best to work with lots of light, and if you need them, reader glasses as being able to focus about 6" from your face helps a lot when it comes to backing the screws out flush, not going that extra bit that drops the screw on the floor. Once you work out the exact length to strip your wire, you'll find doing even a multi-speaker setup fast and easy. For me, these work reasonably well.

These connectors are easy to attach. The design is well thought out.

Good quality,solid material and sits well in amplifier connectors. I can fully recommend this product.

I bought these because my Yamaha R-N800A, like other Yamaha amps I've used, has one glaring flaw: really crappy speaker wire terminals. They are flimsy-feeling, not very well textured plastic, and they are way too close together. As a result, it's tough to get bare wire really set firmly into them; to the point that after a few weeks the right channel was cutting out because the terminal had come lose and was allowing play in the wire connection. I ended up choosing these banana plugs because of the cool look and a fondness for the Nakamichi name from my youth. They were very easy to set-up and firmly clamp down on the wire with dual set-screws. The plugs seat very firmly into to speaker terminals. (In fact, at first I thought maybe I had somehow bought some strange, unknown size that wouldn't fit. Nope. Tjhey're just that snug.) And, IMO, they did end up looking cool installed. As for performance, these kind of things are... for me... oh so hard to tell. But I do think I noticed a widened sound stage with these in place. Perhaps not. And perhaps that wouldn't be the case with amps that have better speaker terminals than Yamaha's. But I do believe it to be true. I would buy these again without thinking twice.