Banana plugs are convenient. Spades and bare wire offer a little tighter contact between wire and binding post. Personally, I use spade connectors on my front three speakers (partly because I have them biwired and I can get two spades onto a single amp binding post), bananas at the amp for surrounds, and bare wire at the surrounds due to space limitations (no room for a banana plug with the wall mounts).

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