Banana Terminations

Since most commonly used 4mm banana plugs are made from gold plated brass-brass being an incredibly poor conductor- and employ a spring, which gives minimal contact area, we instead recommend our superior 4mm hi-contact hollow z/x bananas.

Our z/x hollow banana pins are manufactured using low-mass direct gold-plated Beryllium Copper. These offer a superior, tighter contact area to common-or-garden commercially produced bananas. (To give you some idea of the cost of our quality plugs, a noted competitor sells their (almost identical) z/x pins for £3.25 each.) It should be noted that these z/x banana plugs might also be used in most Cyrus and Naim set-ups - where BFA plugs are required.

Additionally we can now offer,exclusively, our z/x banana plugs in our award-winning Monocrystal copper material-for the very best banana termination available

The Best Method of Termination-Spades

Our preferred termination however is in the use of spades - using a crimping method- wherein our 'TightSeal™- OFC or Monocrystal™ Spades can be securely attached to a screw terminal or a binding post thereby providing a substantial airtight seal with no differing material barrier to the delicate signal. Our Monocrystal™ types come as an upgrade on any of our cables or pre-terminated on our audiophile reference SMS and Ultima US2 cables.

Here, a very high-pressure crimping device creates a seamless joint twixt cable and plug. This maximises contact area to the point where air is excluded from the join, thus forming a "cold weld" between two metals, ensuring reduced contact resistance for faster smoother signal transmission.

The only problem here is the size. The max. binding post diameter for our OFC spades is 6-7mm: for larger diameter (up to 9.00mm) binding posts we offer 1mm thick nickel-plated brass spade terminations. Our Monocrystal™ spades will fit 7-7.5mm binding posts.