Connecting Banana Plugs To Speaker Cable

How to install banana plugs.

Connecting banana plugs to speaker cable.

Speakers usually come with very long speaker wires. From left to right. Although they come as banana plugs spade or pin connectors the method of installation generally falls into one of the following categories. The five way binding post for pin connectors.

With this type feed the bare speaker wire into the bottom end as far as it will go. You will need to be able to work with each individual wire in the pair. In other words you must expose. With the wire stripper get rid of a quarter of an inch of the insulator on the wire.

A pin connector a spade lug and a banana plug. The most popular options are oddly and hilariously named banana plugs and spade plugs. How to use banana plugs with speaker wire 1. If you re running the wire behind the.

You will need. A basic speaker wire connector will unscrew for a few turns and then stop some can completely separate. Their main benefits are that quicker and easier connections can be made as they simply plug into the speakers terminals additionally when fitted properly they ensure a solid and reliable electrical connection whilst minimising risk of shorting due to stray filaments of wire touching adjacent binding posts. To make it easy to identify which wire is positive and which is negative most banana plugs will have red or black markings.

Now you re ready to power on your receiver and adjust the settings and you won t have to cringe when you look behind it. Again be very careful to identify the positive wire and attach it to the correct plug. To connect the speaker wire to your speakers insert the red banana into the red binding post on your speaker and the black banana into the black binding post. Attach the negative plug to the side you re already working on then go to the other end of the wire and install the other set of plugs.

Banana plugs come in single and dual configurations. Banana plug installation step 1 unscrew the base of the banana plug and insert the wire through the bottom. When you re finished you will have a total of 4 banana plugs attached to your speaker wire. The dual variety is just two banana plugs one for each wire in the pair of speaker wires stuck together in the same housing.

The first thing you ll need to do is to cut the wire to the length you need.