Tuff question= Banana plug to adapt to Spade ?

Bdgregory,
Man you should be given an award from the Audiogon Moderator.
You are the Man!. I just got the spades from Parts Express and they do in fact double as a banana adapter!
Thanks for the help!
If I ever again send out Christmas Cards , I will put you on my list.

LOL! Thanks Ozzy, I think you're the first guy I've impressed this month :-)

Glad they work for you.

Bdgregory, Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for.

I know adapters are not the best solution and there may be some degradation but it is a cheap experiment since I already have two identical pairs of very good speaker cables. Bless Parts Express for providing the option of economical U.S. Postal Service shipment for small items.

Now I can experiment to see if the addition of a second set of speaker cables offsets any negative from the adapters. As a plus, I get to lose the jumpers at the speaker end. Kind of a trade off. Adapters at the amp end replace jumpers at the speaker end.

I am still open to other options if anyone knows about other adapters.

I use these attractive and reasonably priced PSAudio spade>>banana adaptors:
http://www.psaudio.com/products/spadetobananaadapter.asp
along with the gold "forks" to attach the fat Purist speaker cable spades to my old-fashioned McIntosh barrier strip:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=102809
Everything is gold plated, and the PSAudio bananas are heavy duty spring-loaded, perfect for someone (me?) who might obsess over sliding connections ;-)
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OZZY - You made this sooooooo easy once you said Nordost bananas. Nordost makes an EXCELLENT banana to spade adapter that fits perfectly and tightly into their bananas and uses gold plated spades. The cost for a set of 4 is somewhere around $54.00, so it's even economical! Your local Nordost dealer should be able to help.