Blue Jeans Cable Ten White Speaker Cable, with Welded Terminations (Single Cable – for one Speaker), Assembled in USA (12 Foot, Bananas to Spades)

Price: $61.00
(as of May 24, 2024 04:43:28 UTC – Details)

Product Description

BJC Speaker Cable, made with our Ten White cable stock and Welded Bananas and Spades

At Blue Jeans Cable, we were never happy with the conventional methods of attaching speaker cable to terminals. Setscrews are fine, but lack pull strength; compression connections are never as strong as they look like they’re going to be; and solder, on large high-mass connectors, is slow going and tends to cause a lot of insulation meltback. Our solution: ultrasonic welding. Our Sonobond Ultrasonic Welder (made in West Chester, PA) welds the copper wire to the gold-plated brass banana plug or gold-plated copper spade lug body without the excessive heat associated with conventional welding, fusing copper to brass in a tight, strong, low-resistance, reliable connection.

Our Ten White speaker cable stock is a 10 AWG cable with each conductor made up of 65 strands of bare copper for high flexibility.

Ultrasonic-Welded Locking Bananas and Spades: a Blue Jeans Cable exclusive feature

The Connectors

Here are our spade and banana connectors prior to assembly. Notice anything? There’s no attachment mechanism for the wire — no set screws, no clamps, nothing but a channel for the wire to sit in. We designed these connectors specifically for ultrasonic welding.

The Welder

This is one of our Sonobond Ultrasonic Welders, in our Seattle shop. Unlike heat-based methods of welding, it drives a large amount of ultrasonic vibration into the junction between the wire and the plug, fusing them together.

The Welded Banana

Here’s a banana plug body after welding. The surface structure of the wire breaks down during welding, allowing dissimilar metals to fuse. The resulting weld has extremely low contact resistance and high pull strength. Once assembled with its locking collar, the plug can be very securely fastened within a binding post by tightening the collar, driving the splines apart.

The Welded Spade

Our welded spades are cut from sheet copper, and then gold-plated. They’re made with a 25 degree angle between the shaft and spade, but because they’re copper rather than brass, they can be re-bent as needed for your installation.

Date First Available ‏ : ‎ June 23, 2021
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Blue Jeans Cable
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B097S7KQKQ

NOTE: This is a single cable, for wiring one speaker; If you are connecting a pair of speakers, you will need two
All terminations are ultrasonically welded in our Seattle shop on our Sonobond Ultrasonic welder, using Belden cable
Ultrasonic welding gives this cable exceptional pull strength and low contact resistance
All terminations are ultrasonically welded in our Seattle shop on our Sonobond Ultrasonic welder, using Belden cable