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How many watts and how many ohms determines what you are going to need to use. A lot of folks just use small bolts like you can get at Home Depot. As far as what they are made of Copper > Brass > Steel. Copper is going to be pretty hard to find so brass will probably be your best bet.

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How many watts and how many ohms determines what you are going to need to use. A lot of folks just use small bolts like you can get at Home Depot. As far as what they are made of Copper > Brass > Steel. Copper is going to be pretty hard to find so brass will probably be your best bet.

Aluminum is readily available. Beats brass, cheaper in a cost/performance ratio than copper bolts.

@OP, what lots of us do there is use bolts straight through the box with ring terminals put on your speaker wire. The amount of current we put through the will melt your typical push terminals that you see at car toys. You can also skip the terminals outright and put wire straight through your box. That's what I've always done

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How many watts and how many ohms determines what you are going to need to use. A lot of folks just use small bolts like you can get at Home Depot. As far as what they are made of Copper > Brass > Steel. Copper is going to be pretty hard to find so brass will probably be your best bet.

400 to 600RMS on a single SoundQubed SDC2.5 15'' D4

Are any of those that much better than the others?

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At that power you should be able to use lots of different things. I use these a lot:

http://www.parts-express.com/round-speaker-wire-terminal-cup-2-7-8-gold-spring-loaded--260-276

They take 8 gauge wire and should be good up to 600 watts per ohm of resistance (the higher ohms the less amperes you will be pushing, and the smaller the wire you can use).

These are also really nice and should be able to handle more power than the terminal cups:

http://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-bpa-38g-hd-binding-post-pair-gold--091-1245

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"Making bass is easy, making music is the hard part."

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