Speaker cable question

I just received some nice 14g speaker wire from Ascend and wanted recommendations on the best way to connect my Rotel receiver and Sierra Towers. I had previously been using a pair of Monster cables with pin connectors on both ends. These worked fine and when I bought them, some 20 years ago, they were one of the few "better" cables available. I only have a run of 6 feet from my receiver to my 3 front speakers. I recall seeing it was better to twist the red/white and green/black pairs of wires, but this leaves a very fat section of bare wire which doesn't wrap around the posts cleanly. The Towers have a hole in the posts for insertion, but my receiver does not and I am worried about poor contact and possible shorting. I considered buying banana plugs, but most places only rate them down to 12g wire and I suspect 2 strands of 14g are thicker than that. If I thin them down on the ends, don't I negate some of the advantage of buying heavy gauge wire in the first place?

Suggestions?

Hi nohav,

I've tried spades, bananas, pins, and bare wire connections and definitely prefer bananas for a quick and solid connection. A quick search turned up some results. Here are two examples of bananas that accept up to 8-gauge wire:

http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...umber=091-1260

http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...umber=091-1075

Here are the full search results for Parts-Express: http://www.parts-express.com/wizards...TOKEN=33738461

I haven't purchased from Parts-Express, but it seems like a good site.

I'd also recommend you contact Blue Jeans Cable. You can purchase terminators from their website. See here (scroll down a bit): http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm. A quick look doesn't turn up suggested wire gauge, but they should be able to tell you that information.