Pins or bare wire (1 Viewer)

[John Gido]

Unfortunately, most of my speaker connections are the spring-clip type. I am using 14G speaker wire inserted into the spring-clips. Would there be any benefit to using pin connectors instead of bare wire other than the obvious (stray wire to short, neatness, etc.)?

 

[Chu Gai]

you can get the pins gold plated...then corrosion/oxidation isn't an issue.

 

[Robert_Dufresne]

John

With spring clips i think bare wire will give you
a bigger contact surface than pins .

Robert

 

[Jim_C]

I would go with bare wire. I've tried pins in spring clips and you can wiggle them around and slide them. The connection is more secure IMO with bare wire. I don't use pins for anything. Strictly bananas and spade connectors.

 

[Juan Castillo]

what about spring terminals with tinned speaker wire ends? Lots of advocates of this method, and that is basically the same as a pin.