help with spade connectors

Everyone thanks. To Jeff Delman, thank you for your comments, you are correct, that is what one has to risk when buying used. But hey, I would never have bought the cable new at $5,000. They are Transparent Reference/XL. Now you know how expensive they are. The lugs are too thick to do any thing with. Quite frankly they’re also too nice to be played with. Knowing me, I would probably would want to upgrade it to the full XL version in the future, just to match the level of my interconnects. So I don’t want to do anything that makes it difficult to sell them when I am ready to spend more money. What I ended-up doing was inserting one leg of the spade into the hole of the binding post and tightened over it with the nut. I know that this not the optimum contact, but it is better than not using the cables at all. I will continue to do so until I find some kind of spade lug-spade lug adaptor. I don’t want to use the banana because the way the connection is made on the Genesis 350 is the banana would have to be inserted vertically from the top over the woofers (if you can imagine what I mean), which means that over time, due to the heavy weight of the cable, I am sure that will have an effect on the structure of it.
Once again thank you for your help.
Mohamed

Another option would be changing the posts on the speakers to accomidate the smaller forks

Mohamed, This could be a good alternative for you, offering you not only a fit with your Transparent cables, but a permanent upgrade to your speakers. You could go with all copper posts from Cardas or Eddison-Price, which I believe come in 1/4" diameter. The all copper posts should be a good sonic upgrade over typical brass posts with nickel plating under gold.

Jeff

I've had the same problem several times and have used a couple different ways to adapt things.Look at your speaker binding post,which sound like ther'e 5/16" with the hole verti
cal.Sometimes if you can loosen the post(from inside) simply turning them 90 deg.so that the hole is horizontal will expose the thinner section of the post shaft that your 1/4" spade will fit on.If getting inside your speakers is a hassle put some tape on a screwdriver that will fit in the post hole and try gently turning the shaft clockwise to reposition it.I'ts not likely that the post will be that tight since overtime most loosen somewhat and turning them in the tighten direction shouldn't hurt anything inside.Cardas makes the best spade to banana adapter and if all else fails send 'em back to Transparent for larger spades.