Tuff question= Banana plug to adapt to Spade ?

Bdgregory,
Man you should be fiven 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.

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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