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Can anyone recommend some lock-notch pins that are easy to connect to speaker wire?
Or some really thin speaker wire that's cheap and would work straight into the little clip-on plugs?
This is turning into a real PITA.
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While I am not a big fan of the push-pin connector that is so common on vintage speakers and receivers, there are time that you have to go with what you have. For those cases, I like the RadioShack Flat Pin connectors. They have 2 sizes, 14-16ga. and 10-12ga. They are nothing special metal wise (gold plated brass?), but they are the best connection you can do in a not so great situation. If you are using good cables, you are better to convert everything to binding post and spades.
Dave
RadioShack Flat Pin connectors are good vs. typical round pin speaker cable connectors. The increased surface area contact of the flat malleable gold plated copper or gold plated brass contacts (maybe brass, but the metal seems too malleable to be brass, IMO) sound better than the miniscule amount of contact surface a hard nail-like gold plated brass pin provides. Hard round pins tend to easily pop out of spring-loaded terminals designed for flexible stranded bare wire connections.
That said, my favorite alternative to either a round pin or flat pin is a flex-pin connector made from a flexible gold plated braided copper wire conductor. The design places much less strain on the weak spring terminals which do not provide a firm grip as it is, and it seems to provide an increased surface area with greater conductivity vs. a typical brass pin with poor contact points to pass current to typically inferior spring-loaded speaker wire terminals.
I use soldered Ultralink Flex-Pins for a HQ speaker selector (with defeatable impedance protection circuitry) for an array of nearfield monitors in a second computer audio system that doubles as a digital A/V server workstation, internet streaming A/V playback system, and general background audio while web browsing.
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I'm not sure which of the many types of terminals used to which you are referring.
ET
Edits: 10/07/14
Maybe these:
http://www.crutchfield.com/p_119QLGFPH2/Monster-QuickLock-Self-Crimping-Flex-Pin-Connectors.html?tp=1612&awkw=75639700945&awat=pla&awnw=g&awcr=47620527985&awdv=c
George
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