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Binding Post

 

Often referred to as a five-way binding post, this is a heavy-duty speaker connector to which a cable can be attached in several ways. It consists of a threaded shaft with a knob that can be tightened to secure either a spade lug or a loop of bare wire at the end of a cable to the shaft. The shaft is hollow, so it can accept a banana plug, and there is also a transverse opening into which a wire can be inserted and secured by tightening the knob. The same opening will also take a pin connector - a straight, thin, solid metal pin that used to be common as the signal probe on test equipment. Beware - not all connectors that look like five-way binding posts offer all of these hook up options. In fact, most A/V receiver binding posts will only accept single banana plugs or bare wire.