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Binding post recommendations?

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If you find a decent explanation or walk though for people who have never done this kind of thing before that would be great - I have several amps I have wanted to change the binding posts on but always felt it was too much risk of mutilating the case (since I have not done it before and had no guide).
 
sehnsucht77 said:
I would like to know if anyone has had experience upgrading the speaker wire terminals on the AU-717 to better quality binding posts. If so, which ones would be a good fit? For instance, I saw these used in a Yamaha power amp on this forum: http://www.vampirewire.com/pc-46-16-bphex.aspx in this method: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=175826&d=1256480032

Thanks for your help!
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That looks strikingly familiar..:scratch2: Those vampirewire posts were almost a perfect fit as well on that M-4 of Reneborg's. Take a close up photo of the 717's OEM posts as they look now.
 
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xoaphexox said:
If you find a decent explanation or walk though for people who have never done this kind of thing before that would be great - I have several amps I have wanted to change the binding posts on but always felt it was too much risk of mutilating the case (since I have not done it before and had no guide).
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No guts,no glory..Its a piece of cake...:D Band saw, drill press and a bridgeport mill are handy though.:D
 
avionic said:
That looks strikingly familiar..:scratch2: Those vampirewire posts were almost a perfect fit as well on that M-4 of Reneborg's. Take a close up photo of the 717's OEM posts as they look now.
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found these online since i have no camera handy at the moment:
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i ran a search of old posts on the forum for anything similar and found someone that had worked on an AU-919 and, according to the guy, the same posts he used should work well for the AU-717 so I am in the process of getting some of his 919 upgrade pics to use a reference in my project. I don't think any case mutilation was involved but he did have to make a special mount for the binding posts using some plexiglass. when i do start the project, i will document it well and share them on here when it is completed.
 
719 binding posts

One interesting note: the 719 had binding posts standard, and the internal layout is so similar to the 717 that it might be useful to have a look at one of those, and see Sansui's placement. I attached a couple of pix of one I sold a while back...
 

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