LOL! Thanks Ozzy, I think you're the first guy I've impressed this month :-)
Glad they work for you.
Glad they work for you.
Tuff question= Banana plug to adapt to Spade ?
My Pass 350.5 Amp only can accept spades.
There is a set of used speaker cables that I would like to purchase but they have banana's on all ends.
I know there are many adaptors that can adapt the other way, but I dont recall every seeing the adaptor the way I have descibed.
Without resorting to re-termination , is there any type of adaptor that can adapt the speaker cable banana ends to fit in my Amps spade ?
I am serious, Please no bananna jokes! Well maybe a few , but only if I get my answer.
There is a set of used speaker cables that I would like to purchase but they have banana's on all ends.
I know there are many adaptors that can adapt the other way, but I dont recall every seeing the adaptor the way I have descibed.
Without resorting to re-termination , is there any type of adaptor that can adapt the speaker cable banana ends to fit in my Amps spade ?
I am serious, Please no bananna jokes! Well maybe a few , but only if I get my answer.
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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 ;-) . |
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. |
I have purchased Virtual Dyanmics Rev 2 biwire with spades so I no longer have a problem as originally posted. This is an old posting but still revelant because of the original question. That is... Why is there not an adapter for converting a banana plug to a spade , since the other way is readily available? The spades sold by Parts Express do work in this way, but they are not designed for this purpose. Nsgarch, the adapaters that I was seeking are the other way. What I was looking to do was to adapt speaker cables that had banana ends to be used with a Power Amp that will only accept spades. Jwpstayman, I will contact Nordost, hope they are the adapters I have described above. |
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