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Spade to banana adapters

Does anyone know a source for spade to banana (female) adapters to use on a binding post? I searched all the usual places and found spade (or bare wire) to male banana adapters for using on the end of speaker cable. But that is not what I need. I want to use two pair of speaker cables (with banana termination) on an amplifier with only one pair of binding posts.

NO, I do not want to insert one banana into the bare wire hole and crush the hollow banana.

Thank you.
don_s
bdgregory
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I've used the spade adapter for the purpose you seek. See the other thread below for more discussion. The inner channel of the compression sleeve is the same size, and it's machined like the banana jack on a 5-way binding post. BTW - the reviews surprise me, I've not had this problem (ie too narrow).
Dayton SPCO-GRB Compression Spade Pair

Spade/banana adapter discussion

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geared4me
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Don, If you are able to change out the bananas on your speaker cables you could put on WBT 0645 stackable bananas. They are $24 each at partsexpress.
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kgturner
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the only thing i've seen like what you describe is here.
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