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Cardas banana plugs are made from brass, and plated with silver and rhodium. Banana Plugs Premium Banana Where To Buy Economy Banana Back To Parts List How To Use Cardas Connectors Gold binding nut for attaching spades or bare wire. Tapered hole at the back for soldering wire or stacking additional banana plugs. Spring loaded split tip for maxi- mum contact surface area and retention. The CAB is a single banana. The CABD is a pair, joined with a removable plastic yoke. These bananas can be terminated to a cable with solder, or used as a spade (or bare-wire) adapter. See gallery below for these applications. Base metal: High copper content, non-magnetic brass Plating: Silver/rhodium Termination hole: 3 AWG/6mm/0.236” This part requires solder. Click here to learn about Cardas Quad Eutectic Solder & Cardas Rosin Flux. Click here for our soldering how-to videos. Part numbers: P40.9 for CABD (Dual bananas with spacer/insulator) P40.2 for CAB (Single banana) CABD Drawing CABD Parts CAB (Single Banana) CABD Drawing 1/4 The Definitive Video About Cardas CAB & CABD Bananas The CAB & CABD Bananas are soldered to a cable in the same way as a spade. Here's a video to demonstrate. CABD CAB / CABD Banana Solderable single banana plug. Traditional spring loaded banana tip. Simple design can accommodate large or small wire. Base metal: Non-magnetic brass Plating: Nickle Termination: 3 AWG/6.35mm/0.25” This part requires solder. Click here to learn about Cardas Quad Eutectic Solder & Cardas Rosin Flux. Click here for our soldering how-to videos. Part Number: P40.15 cabe_drawing cabe_drawing 1/1 How To Solder To A CABE Banana CABE CABE Banana

Can't find what you're looking for? Perhaps this page will explain why, or help you find it. Add to cart, thrink tubing, silver cables, HDMI, subwoofer cables, REL cables, etc.. Why Can't I Find...? Things you won't find on this site, and why. Sometimes we hear from people telling us that they're unable to find something that they're looking for on our website. It may be because they're looking in the wrong place. Or it may be because we don't have it. Or sell it. Or do it. This page lists the things some people are looking for on our site, but that they'll never ever find. Like, ever. If you're looking for discontinued and out-of-production products, please click here . An "Add to cart" button, a shopping cart, a buy now button, etc. This is not an e-commerce site . This is an informational site, with details about our products, links to contact us for more information, and a list of all of our dealers (physical & online) and distributors. We don't sell directly on this site, or otherwise. Please click here for our dealer list. Heat shrink We use heat shrink tubing on most of our cables, however we buy it at retail, and so should you. You don't want to buy it from us. N or can you. H eat shrink with the Cardas logo We understand that some people re-terminate their own cables, and would like to retain the factory look by applying heat shrink featuring the Cardas logo. However, we reserve this printed heat shrink for ourselves, to indicate that the re-termination or repair was performed at our factory, thus retaining the lifetime warranty. There are some online retailers, notably on less than scrupulous websites, offering what appears to be our logo'd shrink tubing. But it's counterfeit. Don't buy it. If you do your own repair or re-termination on a Cardas cable, own it. Be proud of your work. Don't pretend we did it. N eutrik XLRs, Furutech power connectors, and other non-Cardas brand connectors. As with heat-shrink, we buy these parts at retail, and so should you. Headphone connectors for HiFiMan, Dan Clark Audio, Audeze, Focal, etc. With the exception of Sennheiser HD800 & HD600/650 plugs, we don't make our own headphone connectors. If we don't make a connector, and have to buy it from another parts suppliers, we don't re-sell them. Bulk power cable, un-terminated power cables, or partially terminated power cables. The liability is just too high. A n incorrectly wired DIY speaker or interconnect cable will, at worst blow an amp, or at best, just not work. But an improperly wired power cable... we don't want to even think about it. A power, speaker, interconnect, or digital cable, that uses silver conductors. We produce extremely high quality silver wire, and it is used extensively in the audio industry. However, we do not use it ourselves. All of our cables use copper conductors. Why? In our experience, a well designed copper cable (such as a Cardas cable) will outperform (ie, sound better) than a silver cable. And cost a fraction of the price. Grounding posts / Ground posts We used to produce a grounding post. It was basically a small binding post. However sales were slow , and we realized that most manufacturers were simply buying our standard speaker binding posts to use as grounding posts. So we decided to discontinue the grounding post. For a list of our standard biding posts , click here. Inform ation about re-terminating or servicing my own cables. Nearly 100% of Cardas cables that people attempt to re-terminate or repair themselves end up here anyway. Just send it to us. We're better at it than you. Get a Return Authorization number at the link at the top of this page . The Cardas Room Setup & Speaker Placement Guide, and speaker placement calculators. Click here . Card as HDMI cables . We no longer offer a Cardas HDMI cable. Audio is our expertise, and we focus on that. Subwoofer cables Most subwoofers are connected with an interconnect. Some take a high-level speaker connection. There are a variety of Cardas cables that can be used in this application. Our cables most commonly used with subwoofers are Crosslink , Iridium , and Parsec . If you need help selecting a subwoofer cable for your system, please click here , or contact tech support . REL Subwoofer Cables We make cables for REL subs all the time. Any of our Phono cables can be configured for use w ith a REL su bwoofer. Speaker Pins We used to make a speaker pin, called the CNDP. A speaker pin is basically a solder cup attached to a silver/rhodium plated brass pin. Demand for speaker pins did not justify reproducing them when inventory ran low, so we discontinued the part. If you are a manufacturer in need of at least 2000 Cardas speaker pins, please contact us about producing a batch all for you. If you're an audiophile in need of fewer than 2000 speaker pins, we suggest that you consider the Audioquest BP10 Pin . Gold plated connectors We make cables for REL subs all the time. The current cable brochure:

Having started in 1987, there are a number of cables that we have discontinued in favor of newer, improved designs. Discontinued Cardas cables include Hexlink, Quadlink, Cross, Golden Cross, Neutral Reference, Golden Presence, Golden Reference, and Clear Light. A Look Into The Past Discontinued Cardas Products Hexlin k One of the earliest Cardas cable lines, Hexlink went through many variants in its lifespan. There was Hexlink, Hexlink Five Series, and Hexlink Golden 5C to name a few. In their time, Hexlink cables were our top-of-the-line performers. However many technical advancements over the years has allowed our entry & mid-level cables to outperform them. We'd suggest looking at Iridium or Parsec if you're considering Hexlink, but would rather get something newer. Also be aware that there are a lot of fake Hexlink cables out there. We've had good luck with eBay removing fraudulent Hexlink cables. Aliexpress, however, has nothing but fakes, and refuses to address the issue. Click here to read more about counterfeit Cardas cables . Quadlink Another classic dating to the early days of Cardas, the Quadlink cables were discontinued with the release of the Parsec cable line. Quadlink included interconnect, speaker, and power cables. Parsec took similar design geometries, and incorporated higher performing conductors. Cross Cross cables sat just below our then flagship Golden Cross. There were Cross interconnect, speaker, and power cables. Golden Cross One of the most sought after second-hand Cardas cables, Golden Cross remained at the top of our cable line for many years. Revered for its warmth, musicality and richness, Golden Cross cables command high prices on the used market. Golden Cross included an interconnect and speaker cable. A closely associated power cable, Golden Power, was also offered. Today, somebody seeking a cable with similar characteristics should consider Clear Reflection . Neutral Reference This was one of the first Cardas cables to break away from the "warm" end of the spectrum, in favor of - as the name implies - total neutrality. Neutral Reference included an interconnect, phono, and speaker cable. There was even a video cable. Remember those? In our current product line, both Clear Sky and Clear Cygnus occupy similar price points once held by Neutral Reference, with improved performance. Golden Presence Seated between Neutral Reference and Golden Reference, Golden Presence never caught on a best seller. An excellent combination of neutrality and musicality, most people either spent a little less and got Neutral Reference, or splurged on Golden Reference. Typical middle-child syndrome. But a great cable if you can find it on the second hand market. Golden Presence included an interconnect and speaker cable. As with Neutral Reference, modern day cables in a similar price & performance range include Clear Sky and Clear Cygnus . Golden Reference The cable that unseated Golden Cross as the king of Cardas cables. Combining the magical richness of Golden Cross with the neutrality of Neutral Reference, Golden Reference is still a great cable by modern standards, and remains at the heart of many spectacular stereo systems. Golden Reference included interconnect, speaker, power, and phono cables. To create Clear Reflection , we borrowed the geometry of Golden Reference, and incorporated our Matched Propagation conductors. Clear Light After developing Matched Propagation Conductors and creating Clear interconnect and speaker cables , George Cardas worked on a way of bringing similar performance to a lower price point. Coming up with a simplified conductor design, he made Clear Light interconnect and speaker cable. And eventually Clear Light headphone cable. Further developing and improving upon this conductor design lead to Clear Sky and Clear Cygnus . Unfortunately, Clear Light counterfeits have infiltrated the second-hand market. Unlike most counterfeits, these really look correct. Including the packaging and product literature. These fool us in pictures, and even in person... until we cut them open. What's inside is garbage wire. But on the outside, it all looks legit. So be very careful when considering second-hand Clear Light interconnect and speaker cables. Crosslink 6X and Crosslink 8X Both of these were variants of our Crosslink Speaker Cable , with 6 and 8 conductors, respectively. HD MI HDMI is a moving target, having already gone through several standards, with more surely on the horizon. As a small manufacturer, investing in the production of a product that might be obsolete in a year (or less) is dangerous territory. Our speciality and expertise is in audio. We're sticking with that. Cardas Clar ifier App We programmed the Clarifier App in-house, using cobbled together code and an HTML5 "wrapper" called Phonegap. It was an interesting learning experience. One of the main things we learned is that the people who charge $10,000+ to write mobile apps are not necessarily charging too much. We also learned that short of publishing a viral app, it would take about 100 years to start profiting from an app, when you take the cost (or time) of programming it into account. And in those 100 years, there are going to be OS updates and app-store requirements that force you to update your app, thereby putting you further behind in your efforts just to break even. Suffice to say that Apple & Android OS updates made Phonegap obsolete, which put us in a position of having no choice but to either start from scratch, or abandon the project. Click here for the two frequency sweeps from the Cardas Clarifier App.