Stupid Question: Why are they called "5-way" binding posts?
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txcoastal1 wrote: »
Wait there's s 5 way tire tool? I've been doing it all wrong.... -
Output onlyMy amp has 1 way binding posts.
But it sounds like I should?txcoastal1 wrote: »At least you don't own a 5-way tire tool
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The correct answer is banana, spade, pin, bare wire and alligator clips.
WRONG,
dual banana is the correct answer
bare wire , Spade , Pins , banana and DUAL BANANA , this is what makes a 5 way binding post a 5 way binding post. You don't use Alligator clips for speakers. Could you? Sure but it's not technically the reason a 5 way binding post is called a 5 way binding post. Who told you that?
I use alligator clips padded with rubber bands for soldering at the terminating end of the speaker cable
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The correct answer is banana, spade, pin, bare wire and alligator clips.
WRONG,
dual banana is the correct answer
bare wire , Spade , Pins , banana and DUAL BANANA , this is what makes a 5 way binding post a 5 way binding post. You don't use Alligator clips for speakers. Could you? Sure but it's not technically the reason a 5 way binding post is called a 5 way binding post. Who told you that?
I use alligator clips padded with rubber bands for soldering at the terminating end of the speaker cable
Dual banana post is incorrect -
The correct answer is banana, spade, pin, bare wire and alligator clips.
WRONG,
dual banana is the correct answer
bare wire , Spade , Pins , banana and DUAL BANANA , this is what makes a 5 way binding post a 5 way binding post. You don't use Alligator clips for speakers. Could you? Sure but it's not technically the reason a 5 way binding post is called a 5 way binding post. Who told you that?
I use alligator clips padded with rubber bands for soldering at the terminating end of the speaker cable
Dual banana post is incorrect
Ummm, you must be referring to earlier posts.....I don't play with dual banana posts
Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Something of a banana post duel brewing here?
I remember feeling so powerful when I grabbed a couple of surplus
Pomona dual banana plugs from JHU and installed them on the speaker wires for my Polk Monitor 7As ca. 1978. I still have those banana plugs, too. They're on the "home theater" system (which also contained the Polks until we moved to House 4.0 in 2013) in the den to this day. 
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Something of a banana post duel brewing here?
I remember feeling so powerful when I grabbed a couple of surplus Pomona dual banana plugs from JHU and installed them on the speaker wires for my Polk Monitor 7As ca. 1978. I still have those banana plugs, too. They're on the "home theater" system (which also contained the Polks until we moved to House 4.0 in 2013) in the den to this day.
'78 ???? Dang dude....I was just learning how to salute over at Lackland AFB as a young lad at 18. You've been with Polk a L O N G time, and now, I salute you!!Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
mhardy6647 wrote: »Something of a banana post duel brewing here?
I remember feeling so powerful when I grabbed a couple of surplus Pomona dual banana plugs from JHU and installed them on the speaker wires for my Polk Monitor 7As ca. 1978. I still have those banana plugs, too. They're on the "home theater" system (which also contained the Polks until we moved to House 4.0 in 2013) in the den to this day.
'78 ???? Dang dude....I was just learning how to salute over at Lackland AFB as a young lad at 18. You've been with Polk a L O N G time, and now, I salute you!!
I mean... everybody kept purchase receipts from 1978... right? Right?!
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mhardy6647 wrote: »mhardy6647 wrote: »Something of a banana post duel brewing here?
I remember feeling so powerful when I grabbed a couple of surplus Pomona dual banana plugs from JHU and installed them on the speaker wires for my Polk Monitor 7As ca. 1978. I still have those banana plugs, too. They're on the "home theater" system (which also contained the Polks until we moved to House 4.0 in 2013) in the den to this day.
'78 ???? Dang dude....I was just learning how to salute over at Lackland AFB as a young lad at 18. You've been with Polk a L O N G time, and now, I salute you!!
I mean... everybody kept purchase receipts from 1978... right? Right?!
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mhardy6647 wrote: »mhardy6647 wrote: »Something of a banana post duel brewing here?
I remember feeling so powerful when I grabbed a couple of surplus Pomona dual banana plugs from JHU and installed them on the speaker wires for my Polk Monitor 7As ca. 1978. I still have those banana plugs, too. They're on the "home theater" system (which also contained the Polks until we moved to House 4.0 in 2013) in the den to this day.
'78 ???? Dang dude....I was just learning how to salute over at Lackland AFB as a young lad at 18. You've been with Polk a L O N G time, and now, I salute you!!
I mean... everybody kept purchase receipts from 1978... right? Right?!
Maybe you can return them.
Why would I?
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Because they can't connect to wi-fi, of course!
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I keep receipts, they can come in very handy for "proof of Purchase" arguments with say an insurance company.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »mhardy6647 wrote: »Something of a banana post duel brewing here?
I remember feeling so powerful when I grabbed a couple of surplus Pomona dual banana plugs from JHU and installed them on the speaker wires for my Polk Monitor 7As ca. 1978. I still have those banana plugs, too. They're on the "home theater" system (which also contained the Polks until we moved to House 4.0 in 2013) in the den to this day.
'78 ???? Dang dude....I was just learning how to salute over at Lackland AFB as a young lad at 18. You've been with Polk a L O N G time, and now, I salute you!!
I mean... everybody kept purchase receipts from 1978... right? Right?!
I wonder if that 10% restoring charge would still stand Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
mhardy6647 wrote: »mhardy6647 wrote: »Something of a banana post duel brewing here?
I remember feeling so powerful when I grabbed a couple of surplus Pomona dual banana plugs from JHU and installed them on the speaker wires for my Polk Monitor 7As ca. 1978. I still have those banana plugs, too. They're on the "home theater" system (which also contained the Polks until we moved to House 4.0 in 2013) in the den to this day.
'78 ???? Dang dude....I was just learning how to salute over at Lackland AFB as a young lad at 18. You've been with Polk a L O N G time, and now, I salute you!!
I mean... everybody kept purchase receipts from 1978... right? Right?!
I wonder if that 10% restoring charge would still stand
John Dorsey's a good guy -- he'd probably let it slide.
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It looks like Len Bradford was your salesperson.
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »It looks like Len Bradford was your salesperson.
He was indeed per the receipt. I actually remember John as having done the deed, so when I dug that receipt out a few years back (to post here), I was surprised to see Len's name on the receipt.
I do know Len sold me my Philips AF877 - about a year later. I remember hanging around for quite a while as he set up the cartridge. Len was quite the perfectionist. Hangin' out at Soundscape was never a bother, though.
In those days, it was John & his two brothers and Len at Soundscape. I think brother Ed was usually at the Park Radio store (which was still operating then). Their father Lee Dorsey founded Park Radio a long ways back now. EDIT: I am thinkin' 1948... but my memory's gettin' pretty flammable, umm I mean fallible. -
Len was certainly the consummate audio expert and music enthusiast. I met him when I started working at Gramophone and we became good friends.
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I am just picked up some spades.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »11 years of five way binding posts.
Make that 12 years🤣🤣🤣Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden -
mhardy6647 wrote: »The fifth way may be the two options for bare wire.
That's how I understood it. Through the hole with bare wire is one, solid metal post through hole is two, then wire wrapped around post, banana, & spade.
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Does the dual banana go in the same hole used for bare wire....then you are counting 1 hole as two...really making it a 4 way binding post.
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Does the dual banana go in the same hole used for bare wire....then you are counting 1 hole as two...really making it a 4 way binding post.
How would a dual banana go in the same hole as a wire?
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I'm reporting all these insanely graphic sexually explicit posts. Enjoy your bans.
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Does the dual banana go in the same hole used for bare wire....then you are counting 1 hole as two...really making it a 4 way binding post.
(smacks forehead)
The dual bananas are the width of a standard spacing of the binding posts. They go into the end like EVERY other banana plug.... -
Bare wire
Pins
Spades
Banana
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Lol how about ring connector- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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Oh....I get it. Still the same "openings" as regular bananas (as not to offend some with graphic details). Im still sticking to my 4 way binding post nomenclature though!Does the dual banana go in the same hole used for bare wire....then you are counting 1 hole as two...really making it a 4 way binding post.
(smacks forehead)
The dual bananas are the width of a standard spacing of the binding posts. They go into the end like EVERY other banana plug....
