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Caution: Circuit-Board City Employees Post Here Too (Reply to this comment)
by radioguy
1) Premium-brand cables (Monster, etc.) are a complete waste of money. Standard-brand cables, such as RCA, Recoton, Acoustic Research, or Radio Shack, will all work exactly as well as any premium brand.
2) Extended warranties are a complete ripoff. Buy at a store with 30-day money-back return. Any piece of electronics gear that works perfectly for 30 days is highly likely to continue working perfectly for years. These warranties are a way for you to bet on your gear breaking down, but with the odds stacked 100-to-1 in favor of the electronics store.
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May 25 '01
5:40 pm PDT
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re:know what else you can do with the banana plug? (Reply to this comment)
by luminance
Radioguy disclaimer:
Radioguy has never even seen this product. Please do not base your buying decision off of something that you have read in the attached review. His reviews are simply recreations of the same thing over and over, only worded slightly different. The reason that this review appeared first is because epinions considers Radioguy an advisor. Facts be known, epinions bases their criteria for advisors on numerical data including the number of reviews that have been written in a category. As you can see by looking at this loony toon’s homepage, he has written hundreds of reviews on electronic equipment. He has not used any of it.
For all who are interested. You can see a very similar article for the 474 on Onkyo's web site.
NH radioguy.
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May 25 '01
2:49 pm PDT
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Re: Just+to+keep+you+Honest (Reply to this comment)
by radioguy
I'm not honest already (grin)?
That probably is the original use of banana plug. I think now it's also used to refer to the heavy-duty type of speaker-wire connectors. Sometimes they're also called 5-way connecting posts or binding posts. Or two or three way. Something like that. There seem to be a couple of variations on the basic theme.
They're the connectors where you have a plastic sleeve (either red or black) into which you screw a copper threaded bolt with a plastic knob. You can take the bare speaker wire, wrap it around the bolt, and then screw the bolt into the threaded copper opening inside the sleeve. Alternately, the knob part of the bolt has an open copper sleeve at the outer end. You crimp your speaker wire into a little copper plug and this goes into the sleeve. Basically, these various options provide a way of connecting speaker wire that's superior to the spring-clips because there's more surface area contact between the wire and and connector, thus less resistance (not enough usually to make a difference either way, but audiophiles sleep better and more deeply when they're not using spring-clips -- the same phenomenon occurs with Monster Cables).
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May 23 '01
12:53 am PDT
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Just to keep you Honest (Reply to this comment)
by Yarborough
And to insure you that there are still some that really do read every paragraph,
banana-plug speaker connections
I think you meant RCA plug speaker connections.
The banana-plug, referred to also as a Motorola plug, do look like a banana and were often found on the radio antenna cable of earlier make cars.
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May 22 '01
7:23 pm PDT
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