It is simply best practice to keep speaker +/- wires close together. Larger distances will create stronger EM that could affect other nearby devices like a transformer.
Mini-Rant: Human Fingers
I don't have a huge range of experience in this matter but in my limited experience the experience is universal:
My fingers are too large to comfortably use most speaker binding posts easily. It is always tight and tedious. Yes, my hands are big but not unusually so. No, I'm not a clumsy oaf. Quite experienced doing small delicate work in fact. This experience has bridged hi-fi to mid-fi to low-fi.
I can understand this with small or bookshelf sized speakers. But my experience is with tower speakers. I just wonder if there is a reason for this?
My experience is similar with components. Even my amp which is a huge 100 pound deal with virtually nothing on the back but two balanced inputs and 4 binding posts. The binding positive and negative posts are very close together and hard to tighten for that reason.
Anyway, rant over. Just wondering if there is a reason for not putting enough space between binding posts to get human fingers all the way around them?
My fingers are too large to comfortably use most speaker binding posts easily. It is always tight and tedious. Yes, my hands are big but not unusually so. No, I'm not a clumsy oaf. Quite experienced doing small delicate work in fact. This experience has bridged hi-fi to mid-fi to low-fi.
I can understand this with small or bookshelf sized speakers. But my experience is with tower speakers. I just wonder if there is a reason for this?
My experience is similar with components. Even my amp which is a huge 100 pound deal with virtually nothing on the back but two balanced inputs and 4 binding posts. The binding positive and negative posts are very close together and hard to tighten for that reason.
Anyway, rant over. Just wondering if there is a reason for not putting enough space between binding posts to get human fingers all the way around them?
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Are yours closer than the standard, for Five Way binding posts, which has been set for decades? Many have a hex built in, which makes it easy to tighten with a socket(or specialized) wrench. ie: https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-binding-post-wrench-Discontinued/dp/B0009XQUAM |
@shadorne If that is truly the reason then it makes me feel better about the whole thing. At least its not just a matter of bad design. @rodman99999 All three of the towers I have close experience with seem to have the same dimensions with the 5 way posts. Bu, even making the 'box' they are in larger would help some. @reubent With my low end (maybe mid-fi, I don't know) Polk Audio towers I did just get banana connectors which makes things a lot easier. My Aerial Acoustics 7Bs have hex nuts and a 1/2 inch ratchet works okay. But, my cables are Transparent Super Bi-Wires and are spades on both ends. Even with the ratchet the spades tend to twist under the binding post hex nuts when you tighten them. The 7Bs will accept banana plugs. So here are a couple of questions about that situation: 1) You can get banana plugs that have a screw off base which can accept a spade from the speaker cable. Is that recommended? Do I need to buy super pricey banana plugs for that application? If so, recommendations? 2) I could simply cut the spades off the Transparent cables and add good banana plugs but not sure what that would do to the value or performance of those expensive cables? One issue with that is that I do not know the AWG size of the actual wire in the Transparent cable but they look to be significantly larger that the 12 AWG cable I use on my low end system and I'm not sure they make banana plugs that take larger wire sizes but I have not researched it. |
I like these on my amps and speakers for the very reasons described. https://www.dedicatedaudio.com/products/cardas-patented-binding-post-cpbp-crl-long |
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